Are you more concerned with government surveillance, or private data-mining?

[Tuberski]

I am disappointed that you and others seem to be missing the point, so let me word it differently.

There is no other way to define the right to property than by saying something along the lines of "the right to property is the ability to enjoy its benefits, i.e., absent this ability, absent is the right."

By that definition, in a tertiary economy, a contract for a given service most closely corresponds to the definition, since the contract, implicit or explicit, corresponds to this ability.

Assuming a relatively high level of rule of law in modern liberal democracies, then, the closest thing to "enforcement" of property rights becomes your own skill at getting one's consent.

I will define "information discrepancy" as a major component of this skill/ability.

This would in turn mean that competent data miners, at some point will be, in a derived way, "property rights enforcers".

How is that a definition of "information discrepancy"?

ACK!