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🛡️ Data Rights

Simple principles for good data protection

Some truths and some myths about protecting personal data

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Mahdi Assan
Sep 26, 2025
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1. Data has value and risk

Data is the lifeblood of the digital world. If fuels many of the digital products and services that you use and the activities that support their development.

Without people's data, Big Tech cannot extract the behavioural surplus needed to fuel their surveillance capitalist machines that turn quantified experiences into revenue.

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