Legally data protection is complicated and our data is more like access to the commons and largely exists in a place we lease form a tech company. We own our data through copyright but it often seems more like we negotiate access rights not ownership rights.
This article takes a look at who owns our data…
“It’s known as the “privacy paradox”: people say they want to protect their data privacy online, but often do little to keep it safe. We propose that it’s because people find data difficult to own – and things we don’t own, we tend not to protect…