Discussion:
Since AT&T has claimed that all customer data is owned by them, and since a good deal of general Internet traffic passes over their backbone network, we now face the possibility that AT&T will claim that anyone using their network in passing is an indirect customer. They can therefore conceivably claim ownership of anything passing over their network: web pages, email, data and all, if they see a need. They’ve already admitted to collecting the URLs you visit. And if it gets them off the hook for more illegal spying, I bet they will claim more.
So I would like to take this opportunity to make it clear to AT&T, credit agencies, and any others who would seek to use my personal data for their own commercial purposes or re-deploy my information in any derivative form, if you attempt to do so without my express written permission, you will violate my copyrights and other legal rights and you will be liable for damages as a result. My personal identity is at least as valuable to me as Mickey Mouse or the Disney trademark is to Disney.
To make it clear to AT&T and others, I hereby unequivocally re-assert my standing legal copyrights and ownership for all of my personal information, my emails, history, records, and anything that happens to be posted on this website, regardless of any claims made by any third party and regardless of whether I have made such information publically or privately available to others. These are my well-established legal rights and I do not waive them, except for legitimate business purposes, as I explicitly decide, and except for general use of this site under my chosen Creative Commons license terms, which allows for free non-commercial use, within certain parameters. Contact me via this site if you have any questions.
I also assert and want to make clear that any delivery of my personal information to the government in any form, without a proper warrant for such information, would clearly represent a violation of my copyrights and my fourth amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure by an agent acting on behalf of the government. I expect that if you have the ability to collect my web data for the NSA, you can also read this blog post to understand why you should not.