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Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by omginternets on Friday June 29, 2018 @06:52AM (#17423725)
> my data

Data about you is not (necessarily) data you own.

I'm not saying it's right, but any reasonable discussion has to take this legal landscape into account.

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Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by wglb on Friday June 29, 2018 @07:36AM (#17423863)
That is not the European view. Data about you is owned by you, not by the company that collected or processed it.
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Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by omginternets on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:47PM (#17426675)
I don't think that's exactly right. You certainly have some say in how it's used, but I don't think it's built on a notion of "ownership".
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