Why we should end the data economy
No one sane would ever want their relatives, friends, work colleagues, and neighbors to be able to know (quoting from the OP):<p><i>&gt; who you sleep with because both you and the person you share your bed with keep your phones nearby<p>&gt; whether you sleep soundly at night or whether your troubles are keeping you up<p>&gt; whether you pick up your phone in the middle of the night and search for things like &quot;loan repayment&quot;<p>&gt; your IQ based on the pages you &quot;like&quot; on Facebook and the friends you have<p>&gt; your restaurant visits and shopping habits<p>&gt; how fast you drive, even if you don&#x27;t have a smart car, because your phone contains an accelerometer<p>&gt; your life expectancy based on how fast you walk, as measured by your phone<p>&gt; whether you suffer from depression by how you slide your finger across your phone’s screen<p>&gt; if your spouse is considering leaving you because she&#x27;s been searching online for a divorce lawyer</i><p>No one sane is OK with corporations, governments, and other third parties being able to obtain and save this information either -- <i>especially</i> if their only hurdle is to get you to click &quot;OK&quot; to agree to some legal agreement almost no one has the time to read or expertise to understand in its full implications.<p>We need a <i>New Declaration of Human Rights</i> for the 21st century that takes into account rapidly advancing technologies for collecting and acting on data at mass scale.