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I don't think the courts or the companies which hold your personal data consider you to have any property right to that data (beyond the intellectual rights you
by voxic11 3y ago
I don't think the courts or the companies which hold your personal data consider you to have any property right to that data (beyond the intellectual rights you may have via any copyrights, even if you count those much personal data like your location history or your DNA isn't copyrightable). Imo when the government receives a copy of your personal data from a third party they aren't "taking your property" any more than I would be if I took a photograph of your house.
How do you imagine property rights for personal data to work? Even in places like the EU with stronger rights/protections around personal data they don't try to fit those rights/protections into the existing framework of property rights because they are so different.
- caseysoftware 3y agoWe don't have to imagine, we can read their TOS. We continue to "own" the data, but we've given them a worldwide irrevocable unlimited license to do what they want, limited only by local law.. hence why I put "own" in quotation marks.
- voxic11 3y agoWell that is in regard to any copyrighted material you may give them. But for uncopyrightable things like data from a heart rate sensor, or your shopping history on amazon, you can only ever own the physical objects the data is manifested in, not the data itself. And any company will definitely tell you that you have zero property rights over the actual storage devices in the datacenters where your data happens to reside.