Those are good points. I got a bit carried away in my original statement and undersold data a little bit. I think the point of the statement at the time ("data

Those are good points. I got a bit carried away in my original statement and undersold data a little bit. I think the point of the statement at the time ("data is the new oil" as an article in The Economist) was mostly hinging on data for use in digital advertising, but I didn't provide any of that context in my original post, and I was mostly considering user data.