One of the on-site commentators had a definite point about the possibility for using metadata to track people through their lives, but to me the principle doesn't seem much different from entering your address and personal information into a subscription website - ie, I think that there's already a precedent for determining legally the purposes for which information gathered electronically can be used. Likewise, it's highly unlikely, in my mind, that the parts of a given person's metadata that they would care about are going to be the same ones that anyone given unhindered access is going to be interested in.
Will there be abuses? Scams, harassment, theft, etc.? Of course. But just the same as that's an incontrovertible of human nature, it's also true that people throughout history have been honest more often than not. Same shit, different day.
Ja, -n
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"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."
Will there be abuses? Scams, harassment, theft, etc.? Of course. But just the same as that's an incontrovertible of human nature, it's also true that people throughout history have been honest more often than not. Same shit, different day.
Ja, -n
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"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."