Thank you for this link. That was incredibly interesting. I won't spoil the twist at the end, suffice to say that I now am hoping for something like that in a scifi movie.
I'm the CTO at NoblePro. We're building a tech team, and looking for folks who want to help us hack on treadmills, bluetooth, and the software that connects it all.
This stack is probably not something that most people have given much thought, but fitness-tech has exploded, and we're doing some super interesting things.
NoblePro has been around for 3 years, we're self funded, and profitable. With this round of hiring, we're hoping to build the tech team to launch our apps and platform globally over the next 2 years.
If that sounds interesting, I'd really like to chat to you about it.
I'm not advocating for anything specific here. :) And frankly, I take your point and actually agree wholeheartedly. The status quo of data mining and tracking is terrible, and leads to exactly what you're talking about: people changing their behaviour (not just online) because they feel like they're being watched[1].
I realise I'm not providing a solution. I wouldn't even feel confident at pointing a general direction. I'm merely pointing out that I don't believe the right way to solve this problem of personal data aggregation is consolidating all this personal meta-data into a single spot.
You make a good point. PDS solutions aim to get rid of "big data", and centralised data lakes that can be queried. It's not inherently a bad idea, but:
> a nicely structured datadump is not particularly valuable if it's just one person