Data rights should protect privacy, and should account for the fact that privacy is not a reactive right to shield oneself from society. It is about freedom to develop the self away from commerce and away from governmental control. But data rights are not only about privacy. Like other rights—to freedom of speech, for example—data rights are fundamentally about securing a space for individual freedom and agency while participating in modern society. The details should follow from basic principles, as with America’s existing Bill of Rights. Too often, attempts to enunciate such principles get bogged down in the weeds of things like “opt-in consent models,” which may fast become outdated. Read more ...