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> Currently, US lawmakers treat EU citizens' data as US state property. Obviously, that's unfair.

The unstated assumption being that the data in question belongs to those citizens.

If I write about an orchard, the writing doesn't somehow belong to that orchard. If I photograph a wedding the copyright is still held by me. It's not obvious if we're instead talking about a name or an email address that the subject of your data should magically become the owner.



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