The danger of data theft is increasing. The paradox of behavioral data is that it defies the basic laws of economics: the price increases as the number of observations increases. The more complete the picture of human behavior, the more it is worth. It is like copper wire; when the price increases, the thieves come out of the holes. For N=everything you pay top dollar.
We arm ourselves against big data
“And the danger,” I suggest, “that in 10 years all our behavior will be recorded. Our movements, conversations, DNA, meetings, financial transactions, everything. It’s an Orwell scenario. There are no more secrets. Solving a murder is done by an algorithm, not a detective. Isn’t that a dark side?”
“No,” says Viktor Mayer-Schönberger , “we are going to arm ourselves against this.” And so we come to the evolutionary response to the danger of big data. First of all: the older generation has no problem, because they are analog, they leave hardly any digital crumbs behind and before Orwell is here they are already gone.
Joost Steins Bishop
The younger generation solves the problem by living with multiple IDs. They develop different personalities that are difficult to connect with each other. One and the same person is the good student who does internships on LinkedIn, is a protocol fetishist on Dumpert and turns out to be a fanatic cyclist who collects money on Alpes d'Huzes and opened his Runkeeper tunisia mobile phone number list account so that everyone can see how much and what his average speed was.
“People from our generation have it the hardest,” says Mayer. “The midlifers.” They can’t handle multiple accounts, it gets too complicated, they lose track, they don’t have digital schizophrenia in them. They are the most vulnerable.
Beautiful thought. The elderly are not bothered by anything, the middle layer is having a hard time and the young have found their evolutionary answer to big data; an identity for every life.
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