Great Questions. This is a huge paradigm shift that will cause a ton of growing pains for the tech industry and governments. A simple case study would that of Uber and their adoption of non-government based background checks. Is it in our best interest for the government to perform the background checks for drivers? Who knows...but problems like these need answers.
When people say IFTTT, are they referring to the company or to the verbs which they actually represent? (just curious) I feel like the 'If This Then That' paradigm has been around for a long time, while the company which adopted the phrase has not been around so long.
Good intentions, but the visualizations don't work for me (I get Invalid Date errors) and I find the analysis to be shallow. If the amount of data which they say was collected, was actually collected, I think that this dataset deserves a much deeper dive.