IDG Contributor Network: Data sharing: a problematic idea in search of a problem to solve

The latest data sharing proposal comes from Prof. Myer-Schonberger, whose previous work on big data and the right to delete information won him a wide following in policy circles. The key idea is that companies above a certain size would be required to disgorge subsets of their data to competitors. Amazon, for example, would provide the world with its sales data so that anyone could create an alternative recommendation engine.Voluntary data sharing arrangements among competitors have existed fo