Creative Commons The Future of Data Is Licensing Data licensing is the only path forward where the world can operate in a way that somewhat aligns with our intuitions.
The Social Cost of Caring About My Data We need systems that make it easy for the average person to do the right thing by default. And until we have them, holding people morally accountable is counterproductive.
Data Ownership What Companies Would Owe You If You Actually Owned Your Data From the moment you wake up, whenever the following things happen, I want you to tally up the associated dollar amount.
Apple Apple Is the Best on Privacy, But It's Still Not Close to What We Need We don't just need privacy, we need a marketplace where we can sell our data ourselves.
Privacy Privacy Is Just the First Step, the Goal Is Data Ownership Privacy for privacy sake is a weak argument, and privacy advocates should abandon it.
Laws That Get You Paid for Your Data Are Cool, But They Won't Work The infrastructure to pay you for your data does not exist, and the government can't build it.