Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people’s data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there::Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.
Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people’s data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there::Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.
I think it might be time to advocate for individual ownership of our own ‘data’
I don’t see any good reason why our data isn’t protected under law and any attempt to monetize should be done through contracts to each person who’s data is being used and payments made to those people
Government failure to protect citizens’ right to privacy is one of, if not thee, largest money-maker Big Tech was gifted. :/
Gonna be real hard to pass any law about that when the companies making huge profits off of our data can legally bribe politicians to prevent the vote from reaching the legislative floor.
That relies on a country’s goodwill to implement such a idea. In europe with gdpr we are kind of going there and it’s already a massive mess. I find also kind of hard to define ownership; where does it ends? Is derivative data one’s ownership ? When properly anonymised? Plenty of fun in the field really.
Agree
It is in the EU. The law is called the GDPR. At Microsoft, at least, everyone knows about it because it’s in the required training everyone has to do every year, even if it has nothing to do with their job duties.
Doing individual contracts would probably be prohibitively expensive because the companys’ lawyers would insist on reviewing everything, and they’d say any customer who doesn’t have their own lawyer is a fool. That’s why laws like GDPR essentially provide a default contract, and I’ve never seen anyone complain about it. I don’t know the details, but I do know it’s a simple matter for consumers to opt out of data collection entirely, and providers must honor those requests, including deleting data they previously had permission to collect.