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Why personal agency matters more than personal data

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essay: Why personal agency matters more than personal data by Doc Searls on ProjectVRM Harvard, JUN 25, 2018

"Lately a lot of thought, work and advocacy has been going into looking at personal data as a fungible commodity: one that can be made scarce and bought, sold, traded and so on. Good though this might be, it also steers attention away from a far more important issue it would be best to solve first: personal agency."

Issue: 
Privacy
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