| Sounds off topic, but there is something that always bugs me about the data market: -=-=- What about the idea of billing ANY company that is selling my data. And control over my data. For example, FB should pay every single user it makes ad money from, some % of the revenue their data brings them. Apple automatically charges 30% of any app on their platform as a service fee to the app developers to access the audience - so the audience should also be able to say "if you are selling my information into a set of demographics, I should be entitled to a fraction of what that ad demographic produces in ad revenue for FB" -- You may opt in for providing more information in exchange for a larger little slice of what your data is worth - or you may opt out to receive nothing based on the data you already provide in exchange for using whatever the platform is. An example would be "I opt into providing access to my demographics (the data graph on who you are)and choose to be compensated in some manner by the use of the information." -=-- To me, the idea that we are automatically "products" without compensation is pretty lame. Now, I would NEVER use facebook - but lets assume one is using such an exploitative thing: there should be classes of how one may want to use it... FREE (meaning they get profile data), enhanced (meaning I opt to a more extensive profile, to allow them to use - but am compensated for it) etc... FB disgusts me. I would never use it - and there needs to be an act similar to "the right to be forgotten act" which says "the right to be compensated act" |
Why would FB do that when its users happily do that for free? There's no incentive for them to pay users. You could say users would proffer more detailed data, but I doubt it, most people's data is not conscious, it's the unconscious actions that are valuable, such as going to a store and looking at various items.