But for caution against this type of argument, see Gurumurthy and Vasudevan, “Societal Need. [fact]
- We do not therefore deny that property-based arguments (for example, legal fictions of ownership) can be developed that might support privacy and autonomy; for an interesting US argument along these lines, see Fairfield, Owned. There are also proposals for developing, even within the big-tech industry, some form of personal data portability; see the Data Transfer Project sponsored by Google, Micro soft, and Twitter, at https://datatransferproject.dev and http://dataportability.org. See also Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal for a new web infrastructure that would support data portability: https://solid.inrupt.com. But for caution against this type of argument, see Gurumurthy and Vasudevan, “Societal Need.”
Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, loc. 1101