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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In practice, data owners don't have control of their data, sysadmins do. This gets complicated in multi-orgnizational data setups.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the sysadmin is part of the owner

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

data owner was the key one here. If I run a storage service for example, I have control of the data, but you would see it as a breech of trust if I deleted your data, or gave access to someone else without your permission, because you in the scenario are the data owner.