The article is a litany of citationless speculation. The things the writer mentions could happen. But then, many things fit that description.
More to the point, companies that draw the wrong conclusions from data they have – changing credit limits without merit, targeting ads wrongly – will not be helping themselves.
And it goes without saying, for me anyway, that putting information online means putting it online. I don’t assume that Facebook’s interests are mine.
To me, the definition of “my data” is not claiming ownership of bits on FB’s servers. It means that if it’s on the Internet, it’s because I put it there, caveat emptor.
More to the point, companies that draw the wrong conclusions from data they have – changing credit limits without merit, targeting ads wrongly – will not be helping themselves.
And it goes without saying, for me anyway, that putting information online means putting it online. I don’t assume that Facebook’s interests are mine.
To me, the definition of “my data” is not claiming ownership of bits on FB’s servers. It means that if it’s on the Internet, it’s because I put it there, caveat emptor.