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It's unlikely that the powerful institutions will give up their powerful tools.

What I do think might work, though, is a system added to it where every human query is logged & their human peers can ask, "WTF Carl? Why are you looking at data on your ex wife? Or, Why are you looking at your political enemies?"

I think the humans inside those institutions would not limit their power, but they would want to keep an eye on their peers to make sure their peers are not abusing their power.

Those query & access logs can be periodically reviewed by their peers, and their superiors, and those logs should be kept as long as the data is, & queryable just the same as any other data.




Im 99.99% against this sort of thing, but even I have to reluctantly accept that wheels don't get un-invented. So, proper regulation and oversight is the only way to go.




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