HumanDynamics / openPDS

openpds.media.mit.edu
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Project didn't gain too much traction. What's missing? #52

Open snugghash opened 5 years ago

snugghash commented 5 years ago

Hello. A lot has changed in the 6 or so years since the project's inception. Everybody involved has probably followed the developments in the privacy world closely.

Did any of you write any summary or "what I learned" articles based on this project yet? If not, I think reflecting on this project's goals and how they could be accomplished better is something I'd like to read about, especially coming from someone who has worked for building such a world. Perhaps those goals shouldn't be accomplished? Maybe it's better to allow data aggregation so our slow-learning AIs can recognize more patterns. Perhaps there are better cryptographic primitives now that would make more targeted (as opposed to en-masse) data acquisition viable and private (zero knowledge proofs for ensuring only the people benefiting from an analysis would contribute data?).

I'm thinking about building similar tools as yours. I want to know if that's actually a useful thing with the current status quo.