This is an idea I came up with back in the way past the first time I found out a company sold my phone number. I was outraged. What right did these people have to sell my phone number.
So I came up with the idea that all information about me, whether public or not, should be considered my private property. My email address, phone number, address, what I search for, what I shop for, should all be considered my personal intellectual property. If you wanna make money off it you have to come negotiate a contract with me.
Now I have removed myself from facebook because as I've said for years, facebook is evil. Now I am considering how to decouple myself from google because I gotta admit google is evil.
What we ultimately need is to take this stuff out of the hands of the corporations. Our online identity, search, and extremely important communication systems such as twitter and facebook should not be controlled by corporation with ulterior motives. It's frightening to realize how important this stuff was to the situations in Egypt or Tunisia and you realize a corp could just shut that stuff off.
I have a daydream every once in awhile wherein the UN comes along to google, facebook, twitter, etc and says "Sorry boys this stuff is WAY to important for the future of society. It's not yours anymore it's everybody's.
