Personal metadata

Pondering. Subject; personal IP.

Phone apps are a means for us to put a lot of personal information into the databases of US corporations for exploitation against our good selves.

We in Australia could pass a law, for example, that makes all our personal information subject to copyright.

Then the US corporations would lobby the American president who would then threaten not to protect us against China or Indonesia.

The Abbott of the day would promptly kill that copyright law.

Another scenario is that the elite get to keep their copyrights and the rest do not. Imagine a society divided by ownership, or lack thereof,  of your own metadata? Sounds like a great science fiction movie.

There are companies like Facebook, Tinder, Viber and dozens more that are billions of dollars into the red. All that they have to show for this effort is huge databases of what we have done, what we feel and what we think.

They will all be trying to monetise those databases and the obvious one is targeted advertising. But sales margins are already slim, consumers are maxed out on purchasing budgets, these markets are over subscribed with new technology, and there isn’t a lot of overhead for more cost of sales.

My guess is that these companies will all move away into other areas. Like selling personal info to governments and the like.

It will get messy when a third party has more rights to your ID than you do.

Who is you?