What if every ride and stride was recorded, anonymised, and published on an open network that anyone could audit — not locked in a government database, not hidden in corporate reports, but open, ver...
Anonymized by who?
Anonymous data can be trivially faked and is indistinguishable from real data ;
Pseudonymous data can be trivially reverse engineered to a doxx (even with anon data this is the case, but its a less trivial affair) and could still be fake;
A third party can always leak, intentionally of by hack, or lie.
A better way to go about this is to force all the data collection that is currently already happening out in the open in processed numbers;
Density in certain areas ''0.44 people per m2 on date X time Y'', from cell towers for example, or the amount of traffic from the bazillion government cameras everywhere in a similar manner.
There is already so much potential data out there; if published directly (and timestamped so it cant be altered after the fact), you don't just have the usecase you mention, but open google-maps alternatives could start giving you the same type of real time traffic insight google does currently; or anyone could do whatever kind of research (urban planning, marketing etc.)
Anonymous data can be trivially faked and is indistinguishable from real data ;
Pseudonymous data can be trivially reverse engineered to a doxx (even with anon data this is the case, but its a less trivial affair) and could still be fake;
A third party can always leak, intentionally of by hack, or lie.
A better way to go about this is to force all the data collection that is currently already happening out in the open in processed numbers;
Density in certain areas ''0.44 people per m2 on date X time Y'', from cell towers for example, or the amount of traffic from the bazillion government cameras everywhere in a similar manner.
There is already so much potential data out there; if published directly (and timestamped so it cant be altered after the fact), you don't just have the usecase you mention, but open google-maps alternatives could start giving you the same type of real time traffic insight google does currently; or anyone could do whatever kind of research (urban planning, marketing etc.)
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