These are all very good reasons, and I also welcome them. I'd like to also submit my education records and whatnot when applying for a job in Europe, and so forth and so on. That said, I have a million reasons about the downsides. Among these is private sector; here, I have little trust that they won't do all they can to abuse the system. Another fundamental issue is the reliance on consent; the majority of people have no understanding whatsoever about what happens or will happen once their consents have been given.
I think it would be pretty obvious what happens if you get asked "Do you want to share your name, date of birth, email with XYX Private Company". And we still have GDPR, so abusive data collection can be punished, and revocation of consent afterwards is still possible.
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These are all very good reasons, and I also welcome them. I'd like to also submit my education records and whatnot when applying for a job in Europe, and so forth and so on. That said, I have a million reasons about the downsides. Among these is private sector; here, I have little trust that they won't do all they can to abuse the system. Another fundamental issue is the reliance on consent; the majority of people have no understanding whatsoever about what happens or will happen once their consents have been given.
I think it would be pretty obvious what happens if you get asked "Do you want to share your name, date of birth, email with XYX Private Company". And we still have GDPR, so abusive data collection can be punished, and revocation of consent afterwards is still possible.