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Who evaluates the value of metadata?

• wombatmobile 6y ago
  > Who evaluates the value of metadata? Currently, users give it away for free, or else they can't access google's services. Google uses the metadata to supercharge its advertising business, which outperforms all other forms of advertising previously invented, because google knows that ads users will click on as a result of analysing their metadata. William Randolph Hearst, Lord Northcliffe, Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch and all the other media barons who went before google could only ever dream of this sort of control. Google's advertising revenue is in the order of $162 billion per year.
  • CivBase 6y ago
    I think your solution is better than what we currently have, but the real question is whether or not it's better than the DOJ's solution. To compare the two, it is necessary to understand what constitutes metadata and how the monetary value of that metadata would be determined.
  • treis 6y ago
    >Currently, users give it away for free, or else they can't access google's services. More accurate to say that users give it away in exchange for Google's services.