Big data

Big data is big business.

I think there has historically been a classical thought process that information, our name, address, house size, family income, etc, is offerable to anyone at request, or at least in a business/professional manner, ie mailing received, official phone call from a legitimate source, the likewise.

This is 2019, almost 20 years after a moment that almost broke our data infrastructure, which was literally fixed by thousands of people manually retyping code.

But in 2019, our rate of change with technology has been too significant to accurately quantify.  

Having gone from a society that utilized technology in certain points of their daily lives to being one that is dependent solely on technology.

With technology comes ability and the ability to attempt to quantify change and track large data inputs and warehouses of information.

So, we do not exist in our parents world, we live in one where the concatenation of our information means much, much more, and is looked to for much more than we care to understand.

So fast forward to 2019, where I was just involved in an incident where someone was requested a sit down meeting with the US Census Bureau that, I believe from conversation, sits under the Chamber of Commerce, where they were to be interviewing an older couple in their 90's, all for the purpose of government's use of their personal data.  Its sad to have seen Europe so progressive within their human rights, specifically around personal data, versus the US's stance, however, politics aside, without compensation, forcing surveys on the American people is, at the very least, invasion of privacy and more to the point, seizure of assets.

 

Assets in 2019 are not what they were at the turn of the 21st century.  Data is your asset, personal, identifiable, private information is your asset, to hold and to treasure.

You do give up rights to those assets at times, for exchanges for goods and services: goods/services, utilities,banking/credit services, etc.

I, myself, give my own census-like data to Nielsen, or have in the past.  That is, at least, however, with compensation, minimal yet still compensation.

This US Census Bureau officer came to the residence with minimal notification, stating that she is met with slammed doors on many occasions.

I can't blame those on those occasions.

Big data is big business.

Seizure of that, with a guise of civic duty and responsibility to offer this information to allow the community to understand and grow is bs.  Just like land seizures by the government, compensation is a must.  Minimal, possibly, but still compensation for a valid commodity.  One we don't even fully understand at this point.

We've seen the effects of companies who better understand big data, and their potential, and proven, misuses of that.

And we offered that up to them for what good/service?  A chance to be in a social setting that we can't find in a non-virtual space with non-virtual individuals?

So, in turn, I do not know how I trust my government to handle, understand, and trade and bargain for big data.

Their surveys, of which they are actively procuring 24 surveys that I assume are all done in a cast and seize manner.  Where I do assume consent is given by the party being interviewed but at what cost, they show up at your front door and guilt you like a fanatic.

I'm scared of a country who acts in this way.

First of all, its unnecessary.

Make a budget, compensate the individuals versus maybe compensation going towards people knocking down slammed doors and confusing, and these days most importantly, suspecting email, and phone, communication.

At least the scammers are hang up-able.

The government will come to your door.