Hacker News Reader

> in a way that puts formal limits on what they can do with it and how long they have access to it, and I as the patient have both the right and technical ability to revoke that access

If that's what SOLID is, its a scam and more of his DRM promotion. There is no technical way to "revoke my access." Unless you have a memory erasing implant in my brain, if the data gets onto my screen, I can copy it and access it forever. Period. Fuck Tim Berners-Lee.

View on HN

Data use agreements often specify under what terms the data is held and destroyed. While people may still remember some data, the usual use case is large databases that can't be memorized. If someone revokes that data, that data would need to be removed from the database and all associated downstream copies. Failure to comply would open the door to legal penalties, which is the real stick.

Imagine for example, if the US or UK governments took corporate misuse of personal health data (https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/27/18760935/google-medical-d...) as seriously as they currently takes video copyright violations by individuals....

Reply on news.ycombinator.com