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The law should treat personal data like human organs – not for sale

It seems that we accept the corporate hoarding of our digital lives as a given: Reddit simply has the right to strike a deal with OpenAI user data

The thought behind this legal scheme is not just that the market for organs would be difficult to regulate, but that the sale of organswould inevitably result in the exploitation of the most vulnerable. I could move beyond examples and point out how commercial surveillance has fractured the media landscape, facilitated fraud and made it so that personalized data are driving our TV preferences to the extent that no one is watching the same shows any more – all of which, taken together, seems corruptive, exploitative and downright creepy. For some reason, when it comes to protecting our most intimate and personal information, policy consistently prioritizes a surveillance-based form of advertising that barely anyone likes.

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