My Digital FootPrint

Our personal worldview is based on experience but that experience has a bias; the way we make sense of things produces bias ( The Mind is Flat ) and in the end we have no idea just how biased we are in our own opinions, delivery, views or ideas.  However a joy of the Freedom is Speech is that we are entitled to have a biased opinion and express it. Human brains are wired to make all kinds of mental mistakes which can impact our ability to make sense of what our senses are telling us. In total, there are 188 cognitive biases that mess with how we process data, think critically, and perceive reality.   This is the big picture at the end. The School of Thought , a non-profit dedicated to spreading critical thinking has the construct below to help us, it puts the most common ideas in a simple form. Why is this important : a big idea in GDPR and other consumer protection rights /ideas is that of informed consent. The idea falls down at many levels as a complex consent therefore need

The video is not new and neither is the thinking. The Verge did a write up on this and an update - worth reading.  The general response was always about the creepy line - however now seeing clearly that the issue is about where the data is.  What I mean by this is that the data is in Google Silo and Google's view is not to find the data from other sources - but to find a way to get the data itself, making a bigger silo. My problem with this is that this very model of one big silo is the one model that will get broken first. As trust is the issue in the big silo model, why does trust become the game changer.... that idea is explored  here