The Quantified Self movement concedes individual property rights in data

Evidence

We might counter by asking defenders of datafication to deny that some measure of control over data relations is important for autonomy, and indeed the Quantified Self movement has been ready to cede individual property rights in data. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 519

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why would a movement premised on self-knowledge so readily abandon data property rights — a tension worth investigating for the data-colonialism comparison.
• XREF: connects to: Self-trackers apply engineering and optimization logic to everyday living — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 544; Sharing’s semantic unboundedness masks the corporate capture of data — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 514; Quantified-self data systems collapse the reflexive space in which freedom operates — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 520 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Personal identity theory parallels the language of property and ownership #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 444
• Quantified-self data systems collapse the reflexive space in which freedom operates #qualifies (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 520
• Data’s commodifiability rests on abstracting away individual distinctiveness #expands (0.80)