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A primary takeaway from the discussion is that our data has become a valuable commodity, and corporations profit enormously from its exploitation. Snowden posits that the legal landscape is skewed in favor of corporations’ proprietary rights over consumer data, facilitated by the "third party doctrine." This doctrine originates from a case in the 1970s, establishing that when data is held by a third party, consumers lose their privacy rights concerning that data.
Snowden emphasized that the structure surrounding data collection today allows companies and governments to operate without sufficient accountability. As corporations continue to manipulate and profit from consumer data, it raises ethical questions about privacy and ownership.