Regulating the ownership of data

So we had better call upon our lawyers, politicians, philosophers, and even poets to turn their attention to this conundrum: how do you regulate the ownership of data? This may well be the most important political question of our era. If we cannot answer this question soon, our sociopolitical system might collapse.

— Yuval Noah Harari, 2018

From the book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century