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>> who you sleep with because both you and the person you share your bed with keep your phones nearby<p>> whether you sleep soundly at night or whether your troubles are keeping you up<p>> whether you pick up your phone in the middle of the night and search for things like "loan repayment"<p>> your IQ based on the pages you "like" on Facebook and the friends you have<p>> your restaurant visits and shopping habits<p>> how fast you drive, even if you don't have a smart car, because your phone contains an accelerometer<p>> your life expectancy based on how fast you walk, as measured by your phone<p>> whether you suffer from depression by how you slide your finger across your phone’s screen<p>> if your spouse is considering leaving you because she'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 "OK" 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.