That said, for $17,000, of course I would, it would pay for the inconvenience many times over. EDIT: ignore; went back and re-read it and sounds like the user

That said, for $17,000, of course I would, it would pay for the inconvenience many times over. EDIT: ignore; went back and re-read it and sounds like the user would be paid. Unless I'm reading TFA wrong, they're not paying you, you're paying them. I took it to mean that they are trying to place a value on personal data required for such "free" internet services as Google.