Personal Data: The People’s Asset Class
by James Keith Felton
These 12 essays from JFK establish personal data as a measurable input to the productivity of human contributions. Varying policy advances in the definition of personal data across many sovereign states during the 21st century have transformed the notion that data is an asset class, to the legal fact that it is. In these essays JFK explores the political, economic, social, and technological implications of individuals having legal rights to own all data that disseminates from them. He thinks ownership of input is the greatest and human rights and economic issue of the 21st century