Regarding Daniel Henninger’s “ Is Facebook a Frankenstein? ” (Wonder Land, March 29): Instead of making this a privacy discussion, why not include it under the topic of property rights? Silicon Valley giants, the robber barons of our time, are getting fantastically wealthy capitalizing on others’ data for little or no cost to source. If individuals were given property rights to this data, they could relinquish those rights for fees they deem appropriate, alleviating the inequality of the situation. Not only that, this would help offset some of the disruption of technology on the workforce and other landscapes as […]
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