Thanks for a well presented post. However — and it’s a BIG however — data ownership is unethical.

Legal types call it the propertization of data, and the EU Data Protection Supervisor for example considers the vista of a market in personal data as abhorrent as one for live human organs. That is not mincing words.

We have rights over data about us. We should have agency over data about us. But we should not apply property law, and in fact we should create laws to prevent their application.

Self-sovereign identity is inseparable from personal data, so to “own” someone’s data is to own them. Not good. Perhaps the wealthier will have the facility to opt out … but then that societal division isn’t good either.

Love to chat, but for now you may find this post useful: https://medium.com/radicalxchange/the-interpersonal-data-at-the-heart-of-all-human-digital-systems-including-markets-6316701184a9