This is definitely an interesting conversation that has been going on for as long as I can remember. While it's certainly true that information processing at scale is the current rising wave of business, it's fundamentally because these places are providing services that people want to use. Fundamentally, there is choice! But the personal control of information that I think you're looking for is going to have to be mandated by law since it is not in the best interest of business to enforce these sorts of restrictions themselves.
I am interested in why you think that this should be mapped to the FOSS movement and not a social discussion? Simply because your data may be processed using FOSS software doesn't make it inherently more, or less, free or valuable in aggregate.
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This is definitely an interesting conversation that has been going on for as long as I can remember. While it's certainly true that information processing at scale is the current rising wave of business, it's fundamentally because these places are providing services that people want to use. Fundamentally, there is choice! But the personal control of information that I think you're looking for is going to have to be mandated by law since it is not in the best interest of business to enforce these sorts of restrictions themselves.
I am interested in why you think that this should be mapped to the FOSS movement and not a social discussion? Simply because your data may be processed using FOSS software doesn't make it inherently more, or less, free or valuable in aggregate.