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I’m amazed people think they own personal information at all. As if writing their name on something makes it their property.
by fogzen 9y ago
I’m amazed people think they own personal information at all. As if writing their name on something makes it their property.
- rdiddly 9y agoThe name itself is what is owned. You agree, since you just said "their name," i.e. "the name owned by them."
- PeterisP 9y agoWhile you may be amazed, this is literally now the truth in EU. The right to control such information is established as a right of the individual; and if you have possession of some information about me, then yes, I have more rights to control what you are allowed to do with this information in your hands than you, and that information can never in any way fully become "your property". As if possessing something makes it your property - property is a legal notion and (in democratic countries) means just what people want it to be.
- bo1024 9y agoDevils advocate -- if I write a poem for instance, and post it online, then copyright law still gives me control over uses of that information. People don't have the right to do whatever they want with that info. Is this so different? Similarly, companies often include EULA and shrinkwrap contracts governing what users are allowed to do with information accessed on their webpages. So why can't users collectively write a similar contract pointing the other way?