A data ecosystem fosters sustainable innovation

ruben.verborgh.org

15 points·karlicoss··3 comments

Submitted because it resonated a lot with my own thoughts on "The sad state of personal data and infrastructure" [0] (HN discussion here [1])

However unlike my approach, which so far is centered around adversarial interoperability, the article also talks about some potential benefits for businesses which need personal data.

[0] https://beepb00p.xyz/sad-infra.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21844105

Last time I saw something like this on HN there was an uproar about how storing data online is evil anyway because privacy so I don't think the idea will get any traction here.

Thought provoking article with a number of good insights. Here are four key quotes:

+ At any point in time, you can lose all of those investments when consumers start exercising their GDPR, CCPA, or LGPD rights.

+ These and similar comprehensive legal frameworks imply that data collection has become a liability, especially when taking the Big Data principles to heart and storing heaps of data that might or might not be relevant at some point in the future.

+ An alternative under active exploration is an ecosystem of personal data, in which every person has their own personal data vault, which we refer to as a data pod.

+ I believe that data-driven companies of the future will derive their value from the intelligence they provide on top of existing data by treating it as a commodity, rather than clinging onto the flawed fantasy of data as the irreplicable resource it clearly isn’t.

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