""The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
Personally despite the authorities referred to, I am quite happy that I own my personal data, and that information generally can be 'owned'. All that we need to recognise is that the rights and remedies which attach to things owned, may differ, for different things, so we cannot attach what I will loosely call proprietary rights to information or personal data, because it is not 'property', or to look at it from the other side of the mirror information is not property because proprietary rights do not attach to it - instead we use a different set (in English law at least), but both sets of rights, in common (as opposed to jurisprudential) parlance amount to 'ownership'.
So I can control to a large extent use of my personal data, and other information I 'own'. It is not absolute control but neither is ownership of property - which may be seized, confiscated, requisitioned etc.
An if the law decides, for practical reasons, that it cannot call that 'ownership' so be it. I still own it.
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