[sbhn]

Before a company will pay you for your data, you will need to prove beyond doubt your identity, by providing that company with all the id and data you have. “Sorry, you havn’t provided enough data to validate your ID yet”, is the get out clause in that business model. The journey to hell, is paved with good intentions, and there are preists all along the way telling you which way it is.

[e40]

Or, it will allow them to validate what data they have on you and charge more for it!

[e1ven]

If they're going to do that, I'd leave the disbursement to the state.

That'd be easier for companies (just send one check), and provide a privacy preserving proxy between the payment and payee.

[usrusr]

That's an incredibly good point. Good enough actually to inspire a modest little conspiracy theory in my head that it's actually a disguised push from the data giants.

Another serious counterargument: when a company is making billions from billions of users, how much could one reasonably expect? Revenue per unique user is tiny.