Yuval Noah Harari on Data Ownership
“It doesn’t even require a new law. All it takes is a very old rule that we have known from the Ten Commandments for three thousand years: Thou shalt not steal. It is theft to take the data of individuals and use them without their consent, especially in a way that harms them.”
– Yuval Noah Harari, historian and bestselling author, in an interview with Handelsblatt editor-in-chief Sebastian Matthes in “They have learned to hack our brain – about algorithms that can decipher intimate secrets, the danger of data colonialism – and novel life forms created with the help of artificial intelligence and synthetic biotechnology.”, Handelsblatt December 30, 2021 – January 2, 2022, page 18, No. 253