Policy framework · 2025–2026
Toward Associational
Data Rights
A Digital Economy for Families & the Common Good
Data is co-produced. What one person hands over reveals their household, their community, and everyone who resembles them. This framework argues that a right held one person at a time can never answer that, and sets out the one that could.
- —IntroductionWhy a different future for the digital economy is still available, and what it would take to choose it.5 min
- Part IWhose Data? Whose Future?Data is co-produced. The law treats it as though it belongs to whoever captured it first.23 min
- Part IIA Paradigm Shift in Tech GovernanceWhy individual data rights and top-down regulation both fall short, and what a Right of Digital Association would do instead.23 min
- Part IIIOperationalizing Associational Data RightsThe statute: how Data Rights Associations form, who governs them, what they may bargain for, and how they are funded.14 min
- Part IVDRA FeasibilityThe technical groundwork already exists. Six working precedents, running at scale today.4 min
- —ConclusionA new social contract for American families and communities.1 min