by Avi Gesser and Michelle Adler
As public pressure increases on legislators to better protect the personal information that organizations collect, interest has grown in using a property framework, rather than the current privacy model. On October 1, U.S. presidential candidate Andrew Yang became the latest policymaker to advocate for a data security framework that treats personal information as property. Yang released a policy proposal entitled “Data as a Property Right.” The paper starts by listing several common concerns that individuals have about their personal electronic data: Continue reading