Sebastian Matthes demands corporations to put a price on data

“Most importantly, however, the property rights to the data should not lie with the corporations in the future, but with the users. They should be able to take all information about themselves to others at any time, delete – or sell it. It would now be time to follow the initiative of two US senators who had a simple demand last year: Force the corporations to put a price on the data. That would be a good first step, because then many people would understand what the tech corporations owe them. Because that should be far more than a free email box.”

– Digital Colonialism, Essay by Sebastian Matthes, Handelsblatt, June 3, 2020

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