lshanahan (7/17/2013)
This could eventually turn from "you should share your data" to "you MUST share your data". Some of the comments in the data philanthropy link are downright scary. Note the talk about "data hoarding" - a prejorative term. And the author of the article responds to the comment with the following: " I fully agree with you that viewing this scenario as charity is quite limiting"LIMITING?? It begs the question: How would they change the scenario to mitigate the limits?
If a company/individual wishes to share their time, money and even data for a cause they believe in then I say go for it. But the Kilpatrick article smacks of a time when those who choose not to participate will be labeled "data hoarders" or other prejorative terms, then someone starts talking about "data inequality" or something similar and then what was simply a nice idea comes dangerously close to compulsion.
A link from the Global Pulse site (Kilpatrick is the Director of Global Pulse):
Big Data is our generation’s civil rights issue, and we don’t know it[/url]
Kind of makes me wonder what the real agenda is.
I agree completely. The way he puts it Big Data sounds more like Rearden Metal than a Civil Rights issue.
"Why is it moral to serve the happiness of others, but not your own?
If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?" - Ayn Rand 😎