Interesting. To restate a bit: the concept of "ownership" might not work here, as meta data can be as useful as actual data, and businesses just recording one e

Interesting. To restate a bit: the concept of "ownership" might not work here, as meta data can be as useful as actual data, and businesses just recording one end of the transaction can learn pretty much all there is to know about you. See example: post office automatically recording the address of every letter you send or receive. Perhaps just like there are strict requirements around credit card data, personal data is treated the same say. Maybe a 30-day limit for storage on some types of information, and a 90-day limit on others? Allowing the collection but forbidding the persistence of the data (by both corporate and government interests) would allow commerce to continue but would cut back on privacy violations. Don't know. Just thinking aloud.