Albert-László Barabási: Scientists must spearhead ethical use of big data.

The idea that you should "own" your personal data sounds nice, if you wish to think of human rights as deriving from property. I think that is perverted: human rights are more important and fundamental than property. In any case, it is clearly insufficient to protect us from dangerous surveillance. What you own, you're entitled to sell, and businesses are adept at getting most people to "voluntarily" give up enough data to make a tremendous dossier.

We need to ensure that systems do not ask people to surrender such data.