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We need data trusts to help manage our data


While it’s hard for any of us to assess how sharing our data might affect others, data trustees could weigh individual interests against collective benefits and harms. In theory, because the data trust would represent a collective, it could negotiate terms and conditions on our behalf. Thus, it could allow us to exercise our rights as producers of data in much the same way trade unions allow workers to exercise their rights as purveyors of labor.

Data trusts sound good, but is this vision really realistic? It’s hard to imagine that Facebook would ever agree to deal with one. And we, the users, have few ways to force its hand. We could form a data trust, but unless we’re all willing to leave the platform together, or unless governments provide us with greater enforcement mechanisms, that trust would have very little leverage. 



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