If we had access to all the data collected on us what good could we do with it, both individually and in groups? (mander.xyz)

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Internet, shopping, medical, employment, ect. So much info and it's mostly used to extract resources from you.

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[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 months ago

We could analyze the shit out of human behavior, what small things could affect us in certain ways.

Unfortunately would could only do that in general terms, since it would be impossible to isolate the specific variable we want to analyze.

But we would get some amazing data about what in general affects us.

Say, if we could compare how people who recently had a change of media consumption change their eating and exercise habits.

But we can't just select everybody who watches a particular type of media as their primary new source and tell that is what is causing them to eat more paprika or rice, that is at best a correlation, and a weak one at that.

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