> You don't own information about you. Data is data.

This seems like a strange stance. Clearly some data is not just data and must be protected, for example Top Secret information. From a broad consumer perspective, we have FERPA and HIPAA, which place restrictions on educational and health information.

Have you considered the wild west of no data restrictions was the anomaly, not the other way around? Or, are you of the mind that HIPAA and FERPA should be scrapped?