We make data. We can't own a lot of that data, for example if we bought a snickers bar with a credit card. That's data that inherently inures to the CC company, the store, and ourselves, at least.

However, surveillance data is proprietary. We may not even know what we did last Saturday when we blacked out drunk, but the landlords cameras captured it, and they know we howled at the moon, or whatever.

Fakebook, spooks, and the creepy industry that's built on our data is all built on proprietary data, not just our public face. This is why privacy matters. When our metadata links us to ISIS through someone we called about buying a hot tub off Craig'slist, then problems really begin, since we don't have that data, and the spooks do.

That's why surveillance data should not be kept proprietary indefinitely, and we should definitely have a right to know what is known about us. We can point out to the spooks that we were only looking for a hot tub, and I'd rather do that before they're asking me why I was talking to ISIS in my cell in Gitmo.

The blockchain is open, and this precludes many of the problems that are surfacing with data sharing.

Also, the creeps spying on us and swapping our data like bored swingers aren't sharing fairly with us. They're not sharing their data. We need to change that, and the blockchain is going to make that happen, because when we use our cameras, our payments, and so on, and their actions are revealed to be criminal, we can post it to the public chain, and there will be no hiding corruption, fraud, and other nefarious deeds that are currently impossible to rein in.

It is the corrupt that have the most to fear from surveillance, blockchain, and data sharing, and this is why they're trying to keep it to themselves. The blockchain fixes that problem.

Thanks!