> as if the subject of a given piece of information somehow has ownership of it And yet the law in some places has this idea already - if somebody takes a pict

> as if the subject of a given piece of information somehow has ownership of it And yet the law in some places has this idea already - if somebody takes a picture of a person in some countries and in 27 US states, that person has some rights over the use of that photograph under the concept of "publicity rights" or "personality rights". There's stronger concepts of this across some of the EU. This is why model releases exist. So the concept of the subject of a piece of information having some ownership of it is not that foreign, although rights to the extent required for the right to be forgotten is something relatively new as far as I can tell.