Thread by @EinsteinsAttic

Personal "data #ownership" - "pure" or otherwise - is a #misnomer, and #rights frameworks clearly struggle when predicated upon notions of #DataSubjects - and when the #value (to others) of information about us lies largely in its #relationships (to others').

https://twitter.com/luminategroup/status/1288499915916812294

I'd unpack @martintisne's first point a bit further; the impacts we experience are of course based in the way we are #discriminated (for or against) by those who treat us as members of a #class by virtue of shared #characteristics on which they pass #judgement - but is that...

..."more" about "other people's #data" or more about the #judgements, and who's making 'em?

While I share concerns around 'purely' individual(istic) rights - "every woman for herself"! - the perils of #GroupRights lie in the degree to which they can undermine what must remain...

...fundamental #HumanRights, which are at their very core about respecting the #dignity and #autonomy of #individual human beings.

(Not to mention the very real complexities around relatively new classes of data, e.g. #GenomicData, that blur the lines around what's "yours"...)

For more on this topic, I recommend reading @martintisne's latest paper, 'The Data Delusion':

cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/publication/da…

The threats arising are indeed #societal/#cultural AND #personal ("natural" or "accidental") in origin and the complexities of BOTH must be addressed in tandem.