Who Controls Our Data? A Puzzle.

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Who Controls Our Data? A Puzzle.

(image ) Facebook claims the data we create inside Facebook is ours – that we own it. In fact, I confirmed this last week in an interview with Facebook VP David Fischer on stage at FM’s Signal P&G conference in Cincinnati . In the conversation, I asked Fischer if we owned our own data. He said yes. Perhaps unfairly (I’m pretty sure Fischer is not in charge of data policy), I followed up my question with another: If we own our own data, can we therefore take it out of Facebook and give it to, say, Google, so Google can use it to personalize our search results? Fischer pondered that question, realized its implications, and backtracked. He wasn’t sure about that, and it turns out, it’s more complicated to answer that question – as recent stories about European data requests have revealed .* I wasn’t planning on asking Fischer that question, but I think it came up because I’ve...

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