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RE: From Metrics and Sentiment to Scores and Data as Labor
This is a novel idea @dana-edwards but I don't think it is realistic. We all know how well corruption creeps into systems that are meant to be uncorruptable.
I can see an idea like this having a nice start, but I believe Governments, especially the CIA and U.S. Government would eventually find a way to corrupt the system and access the data, someway, somehow.
Public data has it's cons but I think it is better than having centralized data. Having said that, I am still open-minded about the idea that public data might have too many cons.
As it stands now though, I don't see any other better, non-corruptible solutions.
You mean like the NSA, drones, satellites, etc? All governments not just the US government have spy drones and satellites. The point isn't that perfect secrecy will exist because it might never exist in a perfect form. What matters is to provide as much privacy (without sacrificing the benefits of transparency) as you can, to the average person in society.
Which is why I mentioned that the data isn't going to be centralized. Secure multiparty computation isn't necessarily centralized nor is it necessarily going to be public. So you can have data which is encrypted (private) and which is decentralized (mirrored, broken into chunks and pieces across multiple countries, etc). This in my opinion would be better than to have the data public (in which you have no privacy and all the sentiment data might be fake), or completely private centralized as you describe it.
What I'm implying is we can have the equivalent of an encrypted blockchain. The data would always be encrypted and thus under the complete control of the owner. I'm implying that the technology is now available for encrypted smart contracts which work with encrypted data which produce encrypted outputs.
To me for certain use cases this is essential. No one is going to be able to vote coercion free if the data is public. No one is going to be capable of providing true sentiment if the data is public. Who is going to share every detail of every aspect of their life if the data is public?
If the data is private then big data becomes truly useful. You can get beyond the theater we have today on social media.