[chillacy]

Employees at least get paid, knowledge workers sign over their intellectual property in exchange for a salary. There is no concept of data ownership, but there could be something similar. Imagine companies having to license your data and pay you a stipend or the like.

[andromeduck]

Your compensation is in the form of services rendered.

[throwaway_law]

Yes, that is the big tech talking point.

However, the reality is big tech needs customer data, customer data does not need big tech.