Property rights of personal data and the financing of pensions

Cheneval, Francis

doi:10.1080/13698230.2018.1528521

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“…Finally, our proposal differs from others that seek to reorganise the data economy to promote justice (Cheneval, 2018) in that, p. 1) it does not promote the full ownership and control of individual data and 2) it focuses on the unequal distribution of what Rawls calls 'prerogatives of authority and responsibility' in the data economy rather than the unequal income deriving from them. The proposal differs from those that stress the personal ownership of data in that it rests on the idea of the collective ownership and control of data-collection infrastructure.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 90%

Towards Rawlsian ‘property-owning democracy’ through personal data platform cooperatives

Loi

Dehaye²,

Hafen

2020

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosoph

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This paper supports the personal data platform cooperative as a means of bringing about John Rawls's favoured institutional realisation of a just society, the property-owning democracy. It describes personal data platform cooperatives and applies Rawls's political philosophy to analyse the institutional forms of a just society in relation to the economic power deriving from aggregating personal data. It argues that a society involving a significant number of personal data platform cooperatives will be more suitable to realising Rawls's principle of fair equality of opportunity.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Towards Rawlsian ‘property-owning democracy’ through personal data platform cooperatives

Loi

Dehaye²,

Hafen

2020

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosoph

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“…Most authors raising questions around data ownership adopt individualistic reasoning when discussing data ownership and prospective rights holders (Thouvenin et al, 2017;Jones and Tonetti, 2020;Cheneval, 2021;Purtova, 2015). But such a focus neglects the capitalist logics currently shaping the digital economy, where discrimination and classification are not just undesirable externalities, but rather tightly waved into the logics of commodification, analysis, and monetization of data.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In most cases, they can be copied and shared without their value being depleted (Thouvenin et al ., 2017: 6, 15). This is because unlike cakes, data can in principle be “consumed” more than once (Cheneval, 2021). There are exceptions of course, such as data about consumer preferences that become useless once a specific need is satisfied.…”

Section: Personal Data As Capital In the Digital Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Hafen et al (2014) have focused on the empowering quality of health data cooperatives. Cheneval (2021) has argued for individual property rights of personal data to promote justice and endow individuals with an additional income from their data. Others have discussed personal data platform cooperatives (PDPCs) as vehicles to promote fair equality of opportunity (Loi et al, 2020), or have proposed taxing corporations in ways that acknowledge the public's vital role in generating data streams (Feygin et al, 2019).…”

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Data-owning democracy: Citizen empowerment through data ownership

Fischli

2022

European Journal of Political Theory

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This article extends property-owning democracy to the digital realm and introduces “data-owning democracy,” a new political economic regime characterized by the wide distribution of data as capital among citizens. Drawing on republican theory and acknowledging data's unique role in the digital economy, it proposes a two-tier model that combines different modes of data ownership and corresponding rights. The first layer of “data-owning democracy” is characterized by a digital public infrastructure that enables citizens to collectively generate data and have a say in how their citizen data are used. In the second layer, individuals automatically receive machine-readable copies of their data whenever they are generated—a slightly more advanced form of the European Union's existing right to data portability (Art. 20). With its focus on empowerment, data-owning democracy is designed to be complementary to existing data protection regulations. It also illustrates how political theory more broadly, and republican theory specifically, can be instructive for specifying the normative components of a new political economy dealing with questions of empowerment and digital rights.

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“…Moses 2017), strengthening digital privacy, or introducing new property rights in personal data (Cheneval 2021). Where suggestions depart from classic liberal perspectives, they often continue to adopt a negative perspective of freedom.…”

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Digital Freedom –Opening up the Debate

Fischli¹,

Beschorner²

2022

Morals & Machines

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This paper contributes to the normative analysis of digital technologies and data-driven practices by broadening the analytical perspective on freedom. Many contemporary discussions of the digital context tend to operate with a relatively narrow conception of freedom, which centers on the absence of interference. While this approach is in line with liberalism’s on-going paradigmatic standing in much of the Western world, we argue that digital theorists have much to gain from opening their discussions to social and positive conceptions of freedom. Drawing on the work of Axel Honneth and John Christman, we show how such a change in perspective gives rise to new considerations for freedom in the digital context, such as collective self-determination, capabilities, and mutual recogni- tion. Building on these ideas, we sketch three demands that follow from such an inclusive conception of freedom: empowering people via new forms of political participation, increasing diversity and collective awareness in the digital industry, as well as using progressive political regulation to unleash digital technology’s social potential.

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Property rights of personal data and the financing of pensions

Cited by 8 publications

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Towards Rawlsian ‘property-owning democracy’ through personal data platform cooperatives

Towards Rawlsian ‘property-owning democracy’ through personal data platform cooperatives

Data-owning democracy: Citizen empowerment through data ownership

Digital Freedom –Opening up the Debate

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