FB's ~$500B/cap assumes our digital data is “ownerless”, they collect+monetize w/o constraint. But, in fact, our digital data is our digital Property. We simply haven’t recognized this yet. There's directional legal state+federal precedent i.e. medical, financial, interest....

@trentanderson66 @farnamstreet @SergeW1 @SamHarrisOrg @nfergus I frankly don't think we are currently sufficiently enlightened to even postulate

@trentanderson66 @farnamstreet @SergeW1 @SamHarrisOrg @nfergus Our imagination constrains us to the familiar, which powers these questions. The limits of our brains are unknown. My money is on radical human cognitive expanse that shatters our current notions of what's possible.

RT @Jon__Stone: Retweet with comment seems like a new name for it

“Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right...” while Facebook doesn’t give a fuck.

RT @mcbridesg: Will our own data make us obsolete? Provocative post by @KernelCo 's @bryan_johnson …

@theinformation @DavidKirkpatric Nice write up David. The central issue w/ FB: our data is our digital Property.They’re talking about everything they can to divert attention away from this issue. It has the power to sink them, and many others. They shouldn’t have this power to begin with.

RT @mischa: This is an important point. Look at this interview with Zuckerberg. Zero discussion of data or information ownership. Come on @…

@ezraklein Productive interview w/ Mark. The central issue w/ FB is data ownership. Our data is our digital Property. They're talking about everything they can to divert attention away from this issue. It has the power to sink them, and many others.

Zuckerberg’s PR team is trying to steer the conversation away from the most relevant issue: We own our data. We should be in control of it. We can monetize it. We can use it to improve ourselves. They know this will sink them, so they divert #OwnYourData