Abstract:

The relationship between individuals and society in the digital age is undergoing a transformation from identity interconnection to data interconnection. For the data factor market, this means that individual information becomes a production factor that can realize the value of data. First, this paper clarifies the meaning of individual information in the digital age from the practical perspective of individual information protection. Then, it discusses the social and non-exclusive characteristics of individual information that the process of data factorization has given to individual information. It aims to facilitate the protection of individual information from a theoretical perspective while promoting new balance in the relationship between the individual and the society.

Key words: individual information, data factor, internet of everything, individuals and society, digital economy