Citing an Osborne Clarke (OC) report that states “Data is the commodity of the moment,” Jonathan MacDonald opines for The Guardian that it’s time for consumers to speak up about their inability to use their own online data. While the OC report states that 82 percent of its 5,078 European respondents indicated they would like an area on sites “where I am kept up-to-date about my data, where I can choose what I share and not share on an ongoing basis," people are not given straightforward access to their data. “If this data really is so valuable, does the value have to exclusively reside in the coffers of those who did not produce it?” writes MacDonald.
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