Re:What does it mean for users to be in full control over th...
by eternityforest on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @09:09AM
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Transferable ownership is a very old idea, I don't see why it shouldn't apply to data.
What if that personal data is an autobiography that I have released under CC0? If the law says I still own it, can ask for it to be deleted, etc, then CC0 or any other creative commons license means nothing.
What we actually need is laws preventing people from getting arrested or losing access to housing, credit, or insurance based on warrantless data collection, rather than making the collection effectively impossible.
I don't want a world without CCTV cameras, where cell carriers don't know our last position if we get murdered, and where journlists can't report on things in public or look through a data breach.
What if that personal data is an autobiography that I have released under CC0? If the law says I still own it, can ask for it to be deleted, etc, then CC0 or any other creative commons license means nothing.
What we actually need is laws preventing people from getting arrested or losing access to housing, credit, or insurance based on warrantless data collection, rather than making the collection effectively impossible.
I don't want a world without CCTV cameras, where cell carriers don't know our last position if we get murdered, and where journlists can't report on things in public or look through a data breach.