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> My personal data is an asset. And it belongs to me. Hm. How would this work for (say) a social security number? Does it belong to you? Does every number anyo

• specialist 9y ago
  Any non government entity storing data about me (PII and beyond) can only do so with my (revokable) permission and owes me my cut.
  • mkempe 9y ago
    In Switzerland, anyone collecting data about other people must make a public declaration of that collection, and may not keep such records about people who disagree with being thus documented ("fiché").
    • beefhash 9y ago
      For the curious: There's an English translation of the Federal Act on Data Protection. https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19920153/index.html https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19920153/...
    • ben_w 9y ago
      There is a similar law in the UK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998 Which itself is based on an EU directive: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive This is to be replaced with an updated version between now and Brexit (that’s just going to add to the fun!): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regu...