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This is not a satire. I can easily see a service where people can simple upload their FB data and the service bundles it up in to groups of 10,000 for sell, tak
by sytelus 8y ago
This is not a satire. I can easily see a service where people can simple upload their FB data and the service bundles it up in to groups of 10,000 for sell, takes 30% cut and distributes rest of the proceeds. There are tons of folks who have most of their posts public on FB would be willing to do this. There are companies who wants to model users, train/test algorithms would be willing to pay for it.
- Mononokay 8y agoIt's...still satire.
- majewsky 8y agoPoe's law applies.
- blackoil 8y agoHow will it be verified if profile is real or fake?
- John_KZ 8y agoThis is a major problem. There's no guarantee the data is real, and most of the people who have to sell their old data clearly don't have much buying power regardless. But, imagine if they were selling a real-time feed of what they're actually browsing. Imagine if authenticity verification was possible by closed software and hardware (totally not pointing android here). Then the data would definitely be worth something. And the more "clients" you have, the more they're worth.
- blanche_ 8y agoI think you could easily train machine learning algorithm to do that.