I guess the general concept of having more control over your data doesn’t seem so bad, but in this case, uninformed people could be seriously putting themselves at risk.
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I struggle to find a good thing from this. I doubt that those who opt out or reject being part of this catastrophe will have their privacy protected. They will probably continue to be exposed to “unpaid” data harvesting.
Those who opt in are kind of creating a government/private-controlled fingerprint that can be breached or used against them at any given time. As was mentioned, it will only “seduce” people into voluntarily consenting their data.
Brazil is piloting a program without understanding exactly what they are doing to their people, or they are intentionally doing something that we are seeing more often around the globe (public control).
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The project is administered by Dataprev, a state-owned company that provides technological solutions for the government’s social programs. Dataprev is partnering with DrumWave, a California-based data valuation and monetization firm.
I am sure no abuse will happen…
Privacy should be an expectation, not sold because of material circumstances.
Given the world’s dangerous levels of income inequality, I am not surprised that privacy might become a class issue in the future.
Every day, we wake up to a new headline bringing us closer to Black Mirror…
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Obviously this is insane, but I would like to mention that awful corporate art style in the article. I hate that art so much, it just represents everything awful about corporate America to me 
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This is giving me Worldcoin vibes, it’s a grift made by Sam Altman to entice people to sell their personal data and scan their iris into this “Orb” as a way to prove their “humanity” online.
IIRC in 2023, plenty of people in 2nd and 3rd world countries went and gave up their iris + personal information in exchange for getting their app verified, and being able to receive some sort of crypto coin that could be sold for money.
Unfortunately, it’s often people in these countries (i.e. the most desperate) who will fall prey to these kinds of companies, I’m not even sure education would help in this instance, just because… y’know… priorities I suppose. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs dictates that putting food on the table, or escaping a tricky financial situation > privacy, at least for many of these people.
This reminds me of when the now-Chancellor of Germany said that if you opt out of sharing your health information, you should have to pay more for health insurance.