Let's minimize the data to the function. Contacts for a messenger, fine. Encrypted export that only works for your authorized installation to another messenger for purposes of communication, fine. We haven't explored the possibilities here! That's my beef; we are stuck.
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Transparency is not the panacea we hope it is. Privacy is a public, networked good as well as an individual right/desire. Also, to Alex' point, without changing the incentives here, I can see lots of small Facebooks behaving much worse. There might well be less restraint.
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And I bet we'd see a race to the bottom. It is very hard for anyone to understand whole range of implications, let alone unknown the future, and the incentives at the individual level and the collective level are not aligned (as is the case with many public goods).
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See, that's another underexplored idea. Data collection, minimized to function, with hard-expiry attached. I can imagine a world in which even Facebook does versions of this, remains pretty wealth and with much less of the externalized harms. We are stuck in a narrow space.
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Privacy isn't an absolute goal, though. Rather, data collection minimized and matched to function; incentives better aligned. The point isn't let's all be asocial hermits. But data portability can come with, say, encryption that allows data to be plugged in only to functions.
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