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"Datacoup is lining up data purchasers to sustainably purchase data on the platform. However, to get the ball rolling, Datacoup is the primary purchaser of your

by th0br0 12y ago

"Datacoup is lining up data purchasers to sustainably purchase data on the platform. However, to get the ball rolling, Datacoup is the primary purchaser of your data." Uhm...

Tombone5 12y ago
So they tell you to "reclaim" your data by letting them sell your personal data? Datapimp seems an more apt name for them, implications included.
spacefight 12y ago
So they have no idea on the true ask price...?
- otoburb 12y ago
  That's what they're attempting to establish in a nascent 2-sided market where, by other proxy measures, the value of personal information is close to zero for large swaths of the uneducated digital population. I use the word 'uneducated' because presumably the working hypothesis is that once data-awareness is raised (i.e. "you can actually get paid to share your data!"), the corresponding market-price of various personal information tuples/assets will rise. EDIT: As a single other data point, AT&T's cable division called U-Verse is offering a fiber plan called GigaPower that effectively pays subscribers $29/mo for their participation in the AT&T GigaPower Internet Preferences (i.e. consensual data-mining) Program[1]. The "payment" is offered in the form of a price delta between the Premier (i.e. data-mined) tier for $70/mo, or the Standard tier for $99/mo[2]. So, at least one large corporation believes that household web browsing data is worth $29/month which is a good proxy for a price ceiling on how much personal data could be worth in the medium term. [1] http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB421828&cv=812#fbid=JUNeIt0J13u http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB421828&cv=812#... [2] http://www.eweek.com/small-business/att-u-verse-with-gigapower-launches-in-austin.html http://www.eweek.com/small-business/att-u-verse-with-gigapow...

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"Datacoup is lining up data purchasers to sustainably purchase data on the platform. However, to get the ball rolling, Datacoup is the primary purchaser of your

by th0br0 12y ago

"Datacoup is lining up data purchasers to sustainably purchase data on the platform. However, to get the ball rolling, Datacoup is the primary purchaser of your data." Uhm...

Tombone5 12y ago
So they tell you to "reclaim" your data by letting them sell your personal data? Datapimp seems an more apt name for them, implications included.
spacefight 12y ago
So they have no idea on the true ask price...?
- otoburb 12y ago
  That's what they're attempting to establish in a nascent 2-sided market where, by other proxy measures, the value of personal information is close to zero for large swaths of the uneducated digital population. I use the word 'uneducated' because presumably the working hypothesis is that once data-awareness is raised (i.e. "you can actually get paid to share your data!"), the corresponding market-price of various personal information tuples/assets will rise. EDIT: As a single other data point, AT&T's cable division called U-Verse is offering a fiber plan called GigaPower that effectively pays subscribers $29/mo for their participation in the AT&T GigaPower Internet Preferences (i.e. consensual data-mining) Program[1]. The "payment" is offered in the form of a price delta between the Premier (i.e. data-mined) tier for $70/mo, or the Standard tier for $99/mo[2]. So, at least one large corporation believes that household web browsing data is worth $29/month which is a good proxy for a price ceiling on how much personal data could be worth in the medium term. [1] http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB421828&cv=812#fbid=JUNeIt0J13u http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB421828&cv=812#... [2] http://www.eweek.com/small-business/att-u-verse-with-gigapower-launches-in-austin.html http://www.eweek.com/small-business/att-u-verse-with-gigapow...