There's an intriguing article by Kevin Bedell over at the O'Reilly site suggesting that we trademark our personal information. If we get legal protection for our personal data, then we can charge others for using it and restrict others from using it.
This sounds like an absolutely wonderful idea to me -- I always wondered why other have legal rights to our personal data and we don't.
I'd love to see this idea batted around the blogosphere, vetted by the friendly lawyers, implemented in the lazyweb.
Posted by alevin at December 24, 2002 09:04 AM