Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people’s data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there::Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.

  • @Strangle
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    922 years ago

    I think it might be time to advocate for individual ownership of our own ‘data’

    I don’t see any good reason why our data isn’t protected under law and any attempt to monetize should be done through contracts to each person who’s data is being used and payments made to those people

    • girlfreddy
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      492 years ago

      Government failure to protect citizens’ right to privacy is one of, if not thee, largest money-maker Big Tech was gifted. :/

    • @rabquest
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      182 years ago

      Gonna be real hard to pass any law about that when the companies making huge profits off of our data can legally bribe politicians to prevent the vote from reaching the legislative floor.

    • @a4ng3l
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      72 years ago

      That relies on a country’s goodwill to implement such a idea. In europe with gdpr we are kind of going there and it’s already a massive mess. I find also kind of hard to define ownership; where does it ends? Is derivative data one’s ownership ? When properly anonymised? Plenty of fun in the field really.