Previously in a note to a link we shared at https://dlike.io/post/@data.plus/china-is-waking-up-to-data-protection-and-privacy-heres-why-that-matters-world-economic-forum we wrote that as data becomes more and more valuable governments may be pressured to create collective rights or individuals property rights in data.
It is interesting to see that U.S presidential hopeful, Andrew Yang, is campaigning on the idea that data should be considered the personal property of the data subjects.
It is common to see bloggers and politicians referring to the organizations monetizing the data as the owners of the data. As far as we know there is nothing in the laws that says the data ownership rests with the organizations using it. Just because the organizations are able to use the data and the data subjects have been ignorant or lackadaisical about it doesn't entitle the organizations to claim the property rights to data. At best the organizations have been innocent users of the data for lack of regulations and certainty and at worst they have been fraudulently misappropriating property belonging to another.
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