collective data right
Collective data rights can stop big tech from obliterating privacy
Every person engaged with the networked world constantly creates rivers of data. We do this in ways we are aware of, and ways that we aren't. Corporations are eager to take advantage. Take, for instance, NumberEight, a startup, that, according to Wired, "helps apps infer user activity based on data from a smartphone's sensors: whether they're running or seated, near a park or museum, driving or riding a train." New services based on such technology, "will combine what they know about a user's activity on their own apps with information on what they're doing physically at the time."