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Why not?

• jessriedel 6y ago
  In this case, "my" is being used to denote some sort of ownership (in the sense of "my bike") rather than mere association ("my mom"). It's being used to convince the reader that they should feel that something that is rightfully theirs has been taken/exploited by someone else. But insofar as we have (formal and informal) notions of information ownership, we (sensibly) assign ownership of that info based on who collects/computes that info, not the person about whom that info refers. If I collect information about how many cars go down the highway each day, the only entity who might be the owner of that data is me, not the driver's of the cars or the city through which the highway runs. If Google collects and exploits information about you (e.g., how many web searches per month you make), there certainly may be privacy principles they are violating, but not ownership issues. If Google were taking information you had generated/collected (e.g., if they sold illegal copies of the novel you wrote on Google Docs), that would be an ownership issue, but that is usually not the sort of thing people are worried about.