Good points, thanks for reading even though you disagree. In my mind data ownership makes the arguments against those questions stronger. They can't track your

Good points, thanks for reading even though you disagree. In my mind data ownership makes the arguments against those questions stronger. They can't track your location because you didn't give them permission. Right now we have the situation where they do track your location, or could if they wanted to, with no real legal fallout. If they were clearly stealing this data in the eyes of the law, that would give more teeth in court. And it would give standing to those outside of existing cases to bring law suits based purely on this theft. It would be like if the FBI used your house to spy on your neighbors without telling you. The idea that you could prevent them from collecting it in the first place is perhaps an ideal I agree with, but I can't see how that would happen. Even the most tech savvy people leak data left and right. And it's easier and easier to infer insights from less and less data. This might be more of a reality on a decentralized web, but isn't it a waste to just throw away that data that you're keeping from potential spies? Why not at least be given the chance to monetize it if you so choose. And about keeping stuff from Facebook. People obviously want to use social networks, probably with varying degrees of openness and sharing. Shouldn't they be able to use a service like that knowing that if anyone uses their data, it's akin to property theft? Enforcement is another issue, but if we're talking about ideals, I think privacy is a subset of data ownership, and in the form I'm thinking of it, it would only add value to any of privacy's goals, not take away.