Former Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang believes that any tech platform that collects, uses, shares or sells our personal data should pay us for it. And he’s doing something about it.
Recently, more and more people and policymakers have been expressing concern about Big Tech’s business model of espionage and propaganda and the wholesale trafficking of our personal data. And new laws and regulations in California and Europe provide blueprints for how we can start to tame the wild west of the internet for the benefit of its users.
“We ourselves have become the product, and we are being sold to those with the means to buy access to every detail of our behaviour — and to shape what we do next,” Yang wrote in a recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times. “This needs to stop. The data generated by our activities should be owned by us. We should decide what is being done with that information. And if anyone is making money on our data, it should be us. The California Consumer Privacy Act offers a good model for the nation.”
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