When personal data, behavior and virtual identities become a commodity: Would a property rights approach matter?

Prins, Corien

doi:10.2966/scrip.030406.270

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“…UK and American law do not recognize the existence of a property right in information [2,7,15,16]. They recognize intellectual property rights in intangibles such as music, commercial goodwill [2], and, to a degree, trade secrets, but not information.…”

Section: Ownership Of Personal Datamentioning

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Who owns your data?

Rosner

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication

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Popular and professional discussions of personal data are often framed in terms of ownership -that human data subjects own the data they emit and share. This framing has implications for consent concepts. Ownership, however, is an inappropriate way to conceive of personal data -in most cases the law does not grant proprietary interests in much of the personal information that makes up the digital economy. This paper explores the question, "Who owns your data?" from policy, business, legal and philosophical viewpoints, arguing that a new discourse is required for people to understand how much control they actually have over their personal information in order to build a stronger foundation for consent within ubiquitous computing systems.

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“…As ownership is connected to economic value, ambiguities may lead to an undervaluing of data, and a loss of utility by data subjects [15,16]. The generally low infrastructural cost of obtaining personal data already causes "data hoarding" about individuals by companies [11, p. 4].…”

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Who owns your data?

Rosner

2014

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“…As a result, a flourishing market in the sale of personal information has been created [46,47]. Although private data are not traded separately, but when aggregated together, the tiniest nuggets of personal information have value [34,47,13]. This paper presents a knowledgeempowered agent information system architecture that helps tip the balance of power in favor of consumers.…”

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“…Such information then changes hands or ownership as part of normal e-commerce transactions or during a firm's strategic decisions, which often include selling consumers' personal information lists to other firms [34]. With the increasing economic importance of services based on the processing of personal data, it is clear that firms, especially online service providers, 1 have high incentives to acquire consumers' personal information [47].…”

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“…Today, many online companies are gathering information and assembling sophisticated databases that know a great deal of information about many people, generally without the knowledge of those people [6,34]. Such information then changes hands or ownership as part of normal e-commerce transactions or during a firm's strategic decisions, which often include selling consumers' personal information lists to other firms [34].…”

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Knowledge-empowered agent information system for privacy payoff in eCommerce

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Today, many online companies are gathering information and assembling sophisticated databases that know a great deal of information about many people, generally without the knowledge of those people. Such endeavor has resulted in the unprecedented attrition of individual's right to informational self-determination. On the one hand, Consumers are powerless to prevent the unauthorized dissemination of their personal information, and on the other, they are excluded from its profitable commercial exchange. This paper focuses on developing knowledge-empowered agent information system for privacy payoff as a means of rewarding consumers for sharing their personal information with online businesses. The design of this system is driven by the following argument: if consumers' personal information is a valuable asset, should they not be entitled to benefit from their asset as well? The proposed information system is a multi-agent system where several agents employ various knowledge and requirements for personal information valuation and interaction capabilities that most users cannot do on their own. The agents in the information system bear the responsibility of working on behalf of consumers to categorize their personal data objects, report to consumers on online businesses' trust and reputation, determine the value of their compensation using risk-based financial models, and finally negotiate for a payoff value in return for the dissemination of users' information. The details of the system as well as a proof-of-concept implementation using JADE (Java Agent Development Environment) are presented here.

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Location Data, Purpose Binding and Contextual Integrity: What’s the Message?

Hildebrandt

2014

Protection of Information and the Right to Privacy - A New Equilibrium?

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When personal data, behavior and virtual identities become a commodity: Would a property rights approach matter?

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Who owns your data?

Who owns your data?

Knowledge-empowered agent information system for privacy payoff in eCommerce

Location Data, Purpose Binding and Contextual Integrity: What’s the Message?

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