Hawaii Bill Proposes Constitutional Data Property Right
Hawaiians would vote on having a state constitutional “right to own one’s own data” under a bill (SB-170) that state Sen. Karl Rhoads and five other Democrats proposed Monday.
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If passed, the following question would appear on election ballots: “Shall the constitution guarantee the right of each person to own and have an exclusive property right in the data that person generates on the Internet?"
The legislature would determine what data is included and how it would be implemented and enforced.