This will not be the big technology story today, but this is incredibly concerning: "Big tech
should be persuaded to provide, for free, the wiring of our social infrastructure.”
If you were wondering, my respone is no, no, no, no, no.
In a democracy, social infrastructure should be decoupled from ad tech and surveillance.
In fact, in this report, I have called for the reverse - for a Community Tech Stack. glimmersreport.net If you support that, please do get in touch. Contact details on the website.
I gather from others that there is much to be pleased about in other aspects of the report, so I will do a closer read and response later - but two urgent questions on this proposal for now:
1) How can data-driven services be created without access to data?
2) UK regulators don’t have the capacity to enforce existing laws or keep up with the status quo - is it possible for “Big Tech” to be more deeply implicated in social infrastructure in a rights-respecting ways?
And FWIW, I did submit a response to the consultation - published here medium.com/glimmers/socia…
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