A few days before the New Hampshire primary vote, midway through a speech at a packed town hall in Nashua, Andrew Yang began to talk about data.
Specifically, the industrial-scale harvesting of private data that is at the heart of today’s biggest and most profitable tech companies. “We produce an enormous outflow of information that is taken from us, often without our consent, and monetized,” said Yang.
But then he swerved. Instead of issuing the call-to-arms implicit in the “ Data as a Property Right ” plank of his presidential platform, Yang launched into a pitch for what he called a […]
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