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#incentives

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Nishant Kaushik

I finally got around to writing a follow-up to my previous blog post that was triggered by Patrick Opet's open letter, regarding the tradeoff organizations make: sacrificing foundational security for business velocity.

In this post, fueled by conversations I had at Identiverse, I explore how we can change that, by trying to answer the real question: Why aren’t we building secure-by-design systems, even when we know how? Spoiler: It's about incentives.

Check it out and let me know your thoughts.

blog.talkingidentity.com/2025/

blog.talkingidentity.comSecure-by-Design has an Incentive Problem – Talking Identity
#SecureByDesign#RSAC2025#CyberSecurity
Xamanismo Coletivo

WHAT IF WE MADE #advertising ILLEGAL?

"But why? It makes perfect sense. The financial #incentives to create #addictivedigitalcontent would instantly disappear, and so would the mechanisms that allow both commercial and political actors to create personalized, reality-distorting bubbles:

. Clickbait, listicles, and affiliate marketing schemes would become worthless overnight.
. Algorithm-driven platforms like Instagram and TikTok that harvest and monetize attention, destroying youth, would lose their economic foundation.
.Facebook, X, Google, YouTube—all would cease to exist in their current forms.

#Adcompanies are never going to regulate themselves—it's like hoping for heroin dealers to write drug laws."

simone.org/advertising/

Kōdō Simone · What If We Made Advertising Illegal?What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.
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Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich

Who Opts In? Composition Effects and Disappointment from Participation Payments direct.mit.edu/rest/article/10
".…the principles of informed consent are fundamental to regulations concerning human research participation, as well as to transactions such as human egg donation, organ donation, and gestational surrogacy. According to these principles, the decision to participate in a transaction is ethically sound if it is made not only voluntarily but also in light of all relevant information, properly comprehended. Our results show that payments for participation can be in conflict with participants’ understanding about the consequences of participation. They further show that the severity of this conflict grows with respect to both the amount of the payment and the difficulty of acquiring and processing information about the consequences of the transaction."

"… #incentives disproportionately increase participation among those for whom learning is harder. Moreover, these individuals use less information to decide whether to participate, which makes disappointment more likely."

… participants who are attracted to e.g. clinical trials by the pay may be those who have the most trouble evaluating the costs and risks. So high pay should be paired with robust procedures for informed consent.

zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/227434/1
#ethics #economics

CEngg Shreekant Patil

𝐔𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐂 - 𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐥

medium.com/@shreekant-patil-me

Medium · Unlock Global Growth for Your Business using Government SchemesBy CEngg. Shreekant Patil
#SEPC#ServicesExport#Council
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