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“the most comprehensive registry data in existence, available for an entire nation of more than six million individuals across decades. Our data include information about life-events related to health, education, occupation, income, address, and working hours, recorded with day-to-day resolution.”

I shuddered just reading this. What a nightmare for individuals’ freedom and privacy. What a bloody nation is that?

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How do we build a system where there is enough trust that this data will be used for “good”?

Address the problem that people have a proclivity to do "bad". Call it mental health, resolving trauma, spiritual practice. When people are no longer wounded and "broken" internally, they will go out and sculpt the outer shared physical world to match their improved internal state, and all will be good.

I'm not sure this is possible, but I am sure that any attempt to control human behavior externally will fail.

I always point towards the change in public perception towards drink driving as an example of how it’s possible to achieve significant change to society in a relatively short period of time

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