23 JAN 2025 by ideonexus
PDR - Personal Data Record
One probable near-term outcome of AI and a through-line in all three of the scenarios is the emergence of what I’ll call a “personal data record,” or PDR. This is a single unifying ledger that includes all of the data we create as a result of our digital usage (think internet and mobile phones), but it would also include other sources of information: our school and work histories (diplomas, previous and current employers); our legal records (marriages, divorces, arrests); our financial ...A way to think about how we interact with large corporations, what we share, and what they know about us. There are conveniences that come from sharing data with them as well as dangers.