Data Ownership

The Suitability of a Consumer Property Right in a 21st Century Economy

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Tom Boyd and Tara Sugiyama Potashnik published “Data Ownership: The Suitability of a Consumer Property Right in a 21st Century Economy” on Behalf of the National Business Coalition on E-Commerce and Privacy, a non-profit entity comprised of 10 brand name companies engaged in the development of national privacy policy. This analysis may constitute the first detailed inquiry into the evolving questions surrounding the legal treatment of data pertaining to consumers in the current U.S. business-to-consumer (B2C) data economy.