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