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Members agree to share medical data for research.

OK.

But, and this is key, they keep granular control.

They can see exactly who accessed their info, when, and they can pull that permission back anytime.

It's moving consent from, yeah, an opaque legal fiction to something real-time and controllable.

That's another major argument.

Micro consent could offer real benefits, especially for people struggling economically.

That analogy where oil revenue gets paid out to residents annually.

It shows that kind of basic income doesn't necessarily kill work incentives, but it does reduce poverty.

That's the idea.

The Berggruen Institute's framework from 2025 talks about this.

They acknowledge data's value is networked.

My data is not that useful alone.

Exactly.

But they still argue for distributing the value created back to the individuals collectively.

Give people a slice of the pie they helped bake.

Uh-huh.

That requires these data intermediaries, these MIDs, to act with fiduciary duties.

Legally, yes.

They have to prioritize the data subjects.