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What if we collected data to benefit the individual and not corporations?

3 pointsby tinyrisksover 6 years ago

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MrTonyDover 6 years ago
I think about how we could continuously offer services to the bottom portions of society. We would know who might benefit from education, and who might benefit from immediate cash, and even who might be extracting wealth from our society in an inappropriate way. Along those same lines, I'm always amazed by how much is spent by companies like WalMart to quietly deploy facial recognition and associated data collection on every customer, monitoring all of us, while the wealthy can offshore their money and avoid taxes without any paper trail or any real reporting about their hidden wealth (the Walton family being one example - I've heard estimates of tens of billions hidden offshore in order to loan themselves money from offshore to run Walmart and avoid taxes.)