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> The law recognizes that the account holder owns the content of the account Yes, because the money being deposited is already owned by the account holder, ban
by root_axis 6y ago
> The law recognizes that the account holder owns the content of the account
Yes, because the money being deposited is already owned by the account holder, banks would not exist if the bank became the owner of the money deposited, such an arrangement makes no sense. However, banks are within their rights to close your account at any time for any reason, they just have to make sure you get your money back. If you're suggesting that websites should be required to "return your data", that seems reasonable to me.
- solidsnack9000 6y agoWell, banks are required to return it; and they are required to provide an accounting of it; and in practice, they need to give everything to you in such a way that it's easy to go get setup at another bank. If Facebook gives us our contact list as a JPEG, then it's not really facilitative of transfer, whereas giving it to us as TSV or vCard would be.
- root_axis 6y agoI think I might have misunderstood your original argument. If what you meant by "property rights online" is that users should have property rights over their data, on this we agree. I am in favor of laws that would e.g. mandate any website that collects PII to provide tools to manage/export/delete/control the collected data. What I thought you meant was that users would inherent property rights over the website itself, that is what I disagree with.