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I put all my personal data on eBay

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Re: I put all my personal data on eBay

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Post by simple10 »

There are quite a few new blockchain projects[1] aiming to directly remunerate users for data. They're essentially trying to shift the middleman share of the data market into the pockets of the actual data owners – the people.

Advertisers typically aren't interested in single person (personal) data. The minimum size aggregate audience is 1M people to have any advertising value.

[1] https://datum.org/ https://wibson.org/ https://datawallet.com/

Re: I put all my personal data on eBay

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Post by weinzierl »

jacquesm wrote: post #6

Selling your personal data as an individual is not going to work (yes, I understand this is a joke posting). If your data has to be re-imported into the various systems that normally exchange consumer profiles (advertising platforms for instance) it will be a net loss, besides that the chances of you hitting one of the properties is nil. So without the association between your profile and your online presence that da…

Fully agree and in addition selling your data would only be useful if it contained enough identifiers to unambiguously tie it to a single identity. But this data would most probably enable the buyer to impersonate the seller. Not a good idea as OP obviously realized himself and hopefully redacted the data in addition to his disclaimer:

> What’s Not Included

> Permission to steal my identity and open a sweat shop.

On the other hand, the bar for identity theft is so low, that it probably wouldn't matter.

Re: I put all my personal data on eBay

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Post by codetrotter »

bredren wrote: post #8
megamindbrian2 wrote: post #3

I am planning on doing this with my medical record.

Why stop there? Let's see someone auction their whole genome sequence.

I imagine the first person to do that would get a very low amount of money in return. Then in the future we will look back at that person like we do at the guy that bought a pizza for 10,000 BTC. Like, someone had to do it, and it wasn't worth much at the time, and if he didn't do it that way he probably would have done it some other way, but still the feeling remains that he could have gotten rich instead.

Re: I put all my personal data on eBay

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Post by zitterbewegung »

jacquesm wrote: post #6

Selling your personal data as an individual is not going to work (yes, I understand this is a joke posting). If your data has to be re-imported into the various systems that normally exchange consumer profiles (advertising platforms for instance) it will be a net loss, besides that the chances of you hitting one of the properties is nil. So without the association between your profile and your online presence that da…

I had a similar idea to sell peoples personal data in bulk with their permission and then give people back a portion of a monetary award. Then people would bid for certain properties about the personal data. I was inspired to do something like this from the below article from the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/12/223045-a-theory-of-pr... .

One of the issues I found was while I could easily charge people for the sale of large amounts of personal data the way to pay out would probably be in some kind of ACH with a minimum amount of money to accumulate for that.

Re: I put all my personal data on eBay

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Post by squarefoot »

This is going to get interesting only when someone offers a good sample of blood with no strings attached (that is, you're free to clone me or even use my DNA to plant evidence for a crime). I admit an extremely generous offer would make it tempting to me.
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