[thelasthuman]

This data that the tech Giants hold close to their chest belongs to the people and should be released for competitors to use in their products.

I envision companies competing on UX/privacy/ect while all using the same data set. People should be able to use Myspace to talk to their grandparents on Facebook.

How it is now is like if Ma Bell was never broken up, and we were only able to use our AT&T phone and data plan to talk to other AT&T customers only. How could any other phone company start with such barriers in place.

But who am I? Just the last human.

[eitland]

Personally I really don't want the data I shared with one company to be shared with others without my explicit content.

I don't particularily like Google, but unlike a bunch of others they haven't shared my data voluntarily AFAIK.

In a way they already compete on privacy.

If my data gets shared among a bunch of them my privacy will be decided by the most sloppy one.