As of today, GDPR’s article 20 grants individuals the right to request (and transfer) their personal data, held by the various organisations possessing it, in a ‘commonly used’ electronic format. This is about to transform personal data into a commodity individuals can trade.
Every major, and perhaps most minor, advances in technological development have come with drawbacks. Farming provided us with food security but forced us to settle and live in communities, resulting in low-hygiene living areas where diseases could spread quickly throughout communities.