Abstract
While mindlessly scrolling Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok, users often forget that a complicated web of personal data ownership lies under the screen. This Note analyzes the legal interactions of users, platforms, and third-parties regarding this personal data. Hohfeldian analysis of rights and reciprocal duties in the context of California’s various data privacy statutes and common law doctrines provides a powerful tool for understanding the rocky legal landscape data stakeholders navigate. Courts add further definition to this landscape when adjudicating conflicts between these stakeholders. Legal scholars have also proposed frameworks to simplify the rules of engagement for these stakeholders. Data privacy is an area that has enjoyed historically little top-down examination. This Note hopes to unwind the complicated web that is personal data privacy law.
Recommended Citation
James Steiner,
Who Owns Data? Understanding the Rights & Duties of Platform Stakeholders,
12
Mich. Bus. & Entrepreneurial L. Rev.
107
(2023).
Available at:
https://repository.law.umich.edu/mbelr/vol12/iss1/5