Imagine a world in which you are paid for data about your or that you create, or at least compensated in some tangible way, beyond free access to content, a la Facebook and Twitter. A Seattle company has taken a step in this direction. Placed Insights, according to a note in Crosscut, has developed a … More Your Data Points Are Each Worth $.001
If we owned every click, email, instant message, video, tweet, photo, or text we send, we’d probably call the NSA’s interception of email traffic reported in today’s Guardian what it is: theft. This isn’t some flaky idea from a deranged conspiracy theorist. The World Economic Forum has called personal data “a new asset class” in … More NSA: Stop Stealing My Property
PBS NewsHour had a fascinating interview last night with Jaron Lanier, a respected thinker on digital culture and the author of “Who Owns the Future?” He’s worried about the long-term detrimental effects on society and the economy of “free,” that is, our usually unconscious decision to give away our personal data in exchange for so-called … More Pay Me For My Data
J.G. Follansbee 