The amount of surveillance cameras going up around us is insane. Just finished reading a book on property law in the US, and I have some ideas on how it could be used against data collection and surveillance from private companies.
With how common data breaches are, it's not hard to argue that many peoples personal information is easy to obtain and abuse. If we could target common law property rights, the argument would be that personal data IS property of an individual. It's clear that data like SSN, biometrics, bank information, etc have market value (black market, data brokers), and misuse of this data can lead to financial damages for the individual.
By framing personal data as private property, this would create a fiduciary responsibly on any company or institution that requests and stores said personal data. This would make it far easier to litigate and seek policy changes regarding improper use of someone personal data property. Utilize capitalism shitty property law against itself.
>>2662383MAGAts will sell the world to porky just to "own the heckin libs bro"
>>2662383The actual solution is to not having a massive gigantic private tech oligarchy that has a material interest in hoarding each and every datum about every individual in existence, but then again that would require the government not being controlled by capitalist puppets.
Data as private property is something Yanis Varoufakis suggested in "Technofeudalism" as well
>>2663021That is obviously ideal, but barring an actual revolution (lol), taking the system apart by using the system itself can be a way to at least chip away at it over time.