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Data Protection Missed the Point; Loyalty Gets It Right

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Maintainer: Phil Windley · 2026-04-30 · checked 2026-10-14

A blog post on Phil Windley's Technometria arguing that privacy laws such as GDPR and CCPA regulate personal data when they should govern the relationships that give data meaning. Drawing on a Samuel M. Smith session at the Internet Identity Workshop and Hartzog and Richards's "Legislating Data Loyalty," it frames a duty of loyalty, presents Utah's State-Endorsed Digital Identity (SEDI) legislation as embodying it, and proposes MyTerms agreements to make it operational.

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