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How about we learn to deal with the fact that they're not storing data that is yours in the sense of ownership, but only in the sense that it's about you?

We have learned to deal with it. In Europe, we have for the most part decided that allowing large organisations to compile personal data without either the data subject's consent or some other acceptable reason is not a good thing, and we have passed laws that forbid it.

I have the right to a little black book.

Sure you do, but in Europe you don't have the automatic right to keep personal data about me and millions of other people in it, and if you do then we might punish you for it.

I have a right to free speech, and sometimes your name is on my lips.

Not in Europe, you don't. In fact, legally speaking you don't have that absolute right anywhere else in the world that I know about either.