Monica Gohil, Chetna Bujad
With technology growing
exponentially in the digital age, a person’s personal information has acquired
the status of the most valuable possession for both individuals and businesses/
government. In such times when one understands the power of this resource and
the kind of economic profits it brings along, the major debate is – whose data
is it? Does it belong to the individual whose information is out there for
grabs or does the business organizations hold the right to ownership as they
put in a lot of skill and effort to create datasets in order to make sense out
of the raw unstructured data collected thus? This paper tries to ascertain the
ownership rights and further explains why attaching ownership rights to
personal data may be disastrous in terms of protecting the individuals’ data
privacy from any kind of violations.
Data Ownership; Data Protection;
Right to Privacy; Property Rights
VOL.14, ISSUE No.1, March 2022