The problem I fear is that, let's say you once had a facebook account, we all deactivated our accounts when there was wave against Zuck a few years back, but as we know, facebook doesn't really delete your account.
Now imagine that account was linked to a SIM. It's trivial for a nefarious actor to get it re-activated, infact there was a video by Veritasium just today where they didn't even need your SIM.
But even if they are not that hi-tech, it's not that hard to get a SIM issued in your name, or other hacks of a similar nature, we have all heard of stories.
Worse, you lost that SIM a decade back, the number gets back into the queue, and is eventually re-issued to someone new... and they try to create a facebook account, and are presented with yours.
They can then re-activate your old facebook account, and post a video/audio/text of "godelski" saying they like pineapple on pizza. and before you can defend yourself, the pizzarias have lynched you.
(I dare not use a real example even as a jest, I live here)
Are you 100% sure of all your old social media accounts, all the SIM you have ever used to log-in to accounts?
I think we need a data Great Reset: all data (and I mean all) must be deleted by a certain date in the future, and all newly collected data must have provenance so in the future the customer can find out that Ford got information from Databroker A which bought it from B which bought it from Microsoft which collected it from what you type in Windows. Companies holding activity data without provenance get the crack-cocaine dealer treatment: officers in jail, everybody fired, investors and lenders fucked, company liquidated and forfeited.
While it is impossible to take back a disclosed secret, we can create a legal framework which issues immediate business-stopping corporate death sentences for spreading that data without consent (or after you revoke consent, yes it needs to be revokable). Your data is so valuable, because now that we have universal function approximators you can be simulated (to a prediction horizon) and that simulation interrogated.
Now imagine that account was linked to a SIM. It's trivial for a nefarious actor to get it re-activated, infact there was a video by Veritasium just today where they didn't even need your SIM.
But even if they are not that hi-tech, it's not that hard to get a SIM issued in your name, or other hacks of a similar nature, we have all heard of stories.
Worse, you lost that SIM a decade back, the number gets back into the queue, and is eventually re-issued to someone new... and they try to create a facebook account, and are presented with yours.
They can then re-activate your old facebook account, and post a video/audio/text of "godelski" saying they like pineapple on pizza. and before you can defend yourself, the pizzarias have lynched you.
(I dare not use a real example even as a jest, I live here)
Are you 100% sure of all your old social media accounts, all the SIM you have ever used to log-in to accounts?
We leave a long trail.