Lawyer here. Long life story short -- it wasn't until well after law school and mostly not practicing for many years that I learned to love the law, and it is for simple ideas like this, that we would do well to reconsider. I know, especially in tech, people tend to think "We should pass new laws because of this thing," and frequently I'm thinking, "No, we should just go back to X."

Relatedly -- if we could just inject the term "bailment" into all of our discussions about data and privacy we could really get somewhere.