Privacy concerns are a very popular and valid talking point on Lemmy, so I would like to gather your thoughts and opinions on this. (Apologies if it’s already been discussed!)
Would you support this? Would it work or even be viable? (If it could somehow overcome the rabid resistance from these big companies). What are your thoughts?
Personally, I’m getting more and more agitated at the state of this late stage global capitalism, where companies have the gall to ask you to pay or subscribe to their products, while they already make money from you for selling your data. It’s been an issue for a long time now, but seems to really be ramping up.
It’s a great idea and in a way it’s already being done with those survey companies and stuff.
The thing is, what you propose needs to be backed by strong privacy laws. Consumer protections and legislation that mandates the deletion of data once the need for it expires. Basically, none of this should happen without a EU style GDPR in the respective country.