In a free-for-all, people would be aware of what was being collected and they would take action. In what we have now, the fact that the information exists, it's extent, and what happens to it remains secret. I say get it out there.
In fact, it's wrong that a person can sit in a far-away city and spend ten bucks getting all the information they ever wanted to know about my neighbor because he shared it freely online, yet that same type of public knowledge is not available to the rest of the neighborhood for free. Freely-shared information has always been assumed to be local in nature -- you share it with somebody you are in proximity to. This is a good thing: keeps you from over-sharing.
In a free-for-all, people would be aware of what was being collected and they would take action. In what we have now, the fact that the information exists, it's extent, and what happens to it remains secret. I say get it out there.
In fact, it's wrong that a person can sit in a far-away city and spend ten bucks getting all the information they ever wanted to know about my neighbor because he shared it freely online, yet that same type of public knowledge is not available to the rest of the neighborhood for free. Freely-shared information has always been assumed to be local in nature -- you share it with somebody you are in proximity to. This is a good thing: keeps you from over-sharing.