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I'll admit I'd be very interested in a data broker system that would capture my data and sell it to interested parties that I then can profit on. The amount of
by 40acres 8y ago
I'll admit I'd be very interested in a data broker system that would capture my data and sell it to interested parties that I then can profit on. The amount of data each person generates grows and grows per year, even a small dollar amount would be beneficial I think.
- berkes 8y agoThere are several such products being built in the 'crypto' space. Civic intends to allow you to benefit from selling PII for authorization. Datawallet something similar. BAT intends to let you make money by looking at ads (or, to be paid for the data you hand over to advertisers). There are much more following this model of paying for data. Whether one or more will succeed, wether they need blockchains and cryptocurrencies: the future will tell.
- soared 8y agoSomething interesting is that the more money you have, the more you're worth to advertisers, and the more money you could earn from your data. But the data you least want to share (I have disease X, I was just in a car accident, etc) would by far be the most valuable.