By giving us the choice of whether someone else should profit by our data.
Same as I don’t want someone looking over my shoulder and copying off my test answers.
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General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 days agoWe should have the right to not have our data harvested by default.
How would that benefit the average person?
By giving us the choice of whether someone else should profit by our data.
Same as I don’t want someone looking over my shoulder and copying off my test answers.
By giving us the choice of whether someone else should profit by our data.
What benefit do you expect from that?
Same as I don’t want someone looking over my shoulder and copying off my test answers.
Why not?
I prefer that the benefits of those things accrue to me, or to others, or to no one, in accordance with my choice.
In this way, I would gain the economic or social benefits of these activities; and I also, in the case of personal data, would decide who gets to make my business, their business.
Thanks for the answer.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Send me your name, birthdate, web browsing history, online spending history, real time location, and a list of people you know and I will explain it to you.