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How did you get that impression. When I read this I get a completely different meaning from it. The State does not own my live or property and they are also not dictating what I can do with it. They are dictating that no one else can do what they want with MY live, property or data without my explicit consent. The state can not give consent to my data: only I can.


adventured is saying that the State removed your possibility of using your data as payment, since now you can't consent if it's a condition of use of the service.

Or to put it another way: the problem with inalienable rights is that you can't alienate them :)




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