Data Rights Quotes

Anytime Facebook wants to change how it might use all that data about you, in any way, across any service it has within the Facebook ecosystem, all it has to do is change one privacy policy, tell you about it, and that's that.

We urgently need more due process with the algorithmic systems influencing our lives. If you are given a score that jeopardizes your ability to get a job, housing, or education, you should have the right to see that data, know how it was generated, and be able to correct errors and contest the decision.

Since the beginning of the internet era, it has been pretty widely accepted that when you join an online service, whatever data you put into it belongs to you.

As our society tips toward one based on data, our collective decisions around how that data can be used will determine what kind of a culture we live in.

If we want protection, we need to start thinking of our data as our property, because, if no one has noticed, property is held up and protected legally.

Our personal data belongs to us. Government holds it on trust.

If your data is out there earning money for somebody, you should have a say in it.

Individuals should be able to monetise their own data - that's their own human value - not to be exploited.