RE: The Chain of Data Acquisition (Part 2)
This is an interesting topic. It has occured to me that 'democratizing' the network by owning all data that references you would flip the tables on companies like Facebook and they would have to pay a licensing fee for the use of the data of each person on it. It would be kind of like looking at ad monetization system from the inverted perspective.
It is very shortly going to get really complicated. Deep learning will begin effectively passing the Turing test from within the limited scope of the various social media platforms - think super bots that are really hard to tell from people.
I have a 'textual steganography' project I am working on that is designed to counter NSA & large actor data collection on a systemic level that scales well. The part that applies here is that each user would represent a small hive of bots that create spurious metadata by communicating with other members in the crypto net. The result is that the crypto net creates a haystack that the data & meta-data hide in.
It really is, I'm very interested in it at the moment. At the end of the day, it's Facebooks prerogative to run the way it does, and it is entitled to by the law. I think we need more comprehensive laws as well as the technology to back them up. This has probably got to come from some kind of disruption though because I can't imagine Facebook will change the sweet deal they have now. I'll have to come from resistance.
I hadn't thought of it from the perspective of AI here, that a really good insight. As bots get more intelligent the idea of verification might be even more important than it already it. I can imagine some kind of one time key system linked to your biometric data to sign a post 🙀 😓 It would get complicated!
Do you have a link to that 'textual steganography' project? That sounds really interested, kind of like how WikiLeaks and other services operate where protecting one's anonymity can mean protecting one's life and freedom. It's already shown to work well, good luck with it, it's needed! Please let us know about it here on steemit.