At Fission, we believe that people and the communities they belong to deserve more agency over their data. In the Harvard Business Review article, Why It's So Hard for Users to Control Their Data by Bhaskar Chakravorti, digital agency is defined as the ability of users to own the rights to their personal data, manage access to this data and potentially be compensated fairly for such access.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://fission.codes/blog/user-owned-data/