Your article is certainly thought provoking, and you have some good points, but I think you are mainly provoking though and not actually suggesting a solution. The reason I say that is because there is no way to create the system you are talking about - at least without a major paradigm shift. The problem as I see it is the "public" entities like governments and publicly traded companies are the worst violators of privacy because of the money they receive from that information. These same organizations are the ones that "hide" their own criminal activities. How can you make these massive entities who are supposed to be "public," and "transparent" by definition cease and desist when they are the gatekeepers. These are the entities that control the regulations, and do we really think they can regulate themselves? There will always be the bad players and I realize this is a REAL problem. I just think that just like governments and corporations will never willingly give away money or power, they will never give up the monopoly on information unless some how some way we could force them to. Information is power, and the more private it is the more valuable. By the way thanks for the upvote on the eos article I commented on!! Again, very thought provoking!