Insightful article. And worldscraping is a delightful term, with lots of positive potential if there were an open platform.<p>Unfortunately I agree that big tech will definitely try to own AR-scraped data, and make it even more of a walled garden than smartphones, but I am pessimistic about government regulation preventing that, and keeping data open.<p>Governments around the world have so far only shown interest in"opening" the data into their own surveillance systems. And centralization of the platform by big tech makes it easier for them.<p>The only hope I have is from either of:<p>a) a new upstart that builds on an open platform from the very beginning, to compete with big tech (unlikely due to the significant hardware investment requirements)<p>b) the loser among FAMANG's AR attempts, who decides to open everything up as a last ditch attempt (plausible)<p>c) hackers jailbreaking AR glasses and creating an open platform