From: telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org   
      
   By Theodore F. Claypoole   
      
   Last week I jumped from the starting point of the newest   
   U.S. anti-trust action against Google into a discussion about the   
   legal and economic status of data. I would like to carry the   
   discussion of data further.   
      
   To briefly recap: data is history (it describes someone at a given   
   time or it describes something that happened at a given time); history   
   is not subject to ownership by anyone; and while we have some laws   
   restricting use or financial exploitation of information, generally   
   anyone who can figure out how to use data legally will be allowed to   
   use it productively. Data is considered to be a commodity by many,   
   including the states AGs who just sued Google. Is this more like   
   harnessing the wind, drilling for oil, issuing securities, or   
   cultivating crops? We are still figuring out the appropriate   
   analogies, and the correct analogy may depend on the type of data   
   collected and how it is used.   
      
   https://www.natlawreview.com/article/one-transaction-generates-d   
   ta-to-feed-multitudes   
      
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