So, who owns your identity? The naive among us might suppose that the individual is entitled to his identity, and that he owns it. If so, you’d get a lot of disagreement from the organizations. Doctors say they own the medical records, because they created it - literally wrote it in a file folder. Credit Reporting agencies will tell you that they own your credit file. The government will tell you they own your drivers license and passport — they just let you use them, and can demand their return at any time.

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