Yeah this is really a move to make it cheap for any company to buy your data. Currently data is held by a small number of companies who invest a lot of money p

Yeah this is really a move to make it cheap for any company to buy your data. Currently data is held by a small number of companies who invest a lot of money protecting it as a business secret. The goal of the pay-for-data movement is to make it easy for any fly by night operation to have access to the same data without earning your trust.