Re:I put all my personal data on eBay
by zitterbewegung on Monday May 28, 2018 @02:13PM
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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
by incompatible on Monday May 28, 2018 @05:26PM
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With a current bid of £113.00, it's working fine.
Re:I put all my personal data on eBay
by LeoPanthera on Monday May 28, 2018 @06:29PM
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The first time is always a special case. This reminds me of "the million dollar homepage". It worked once. It will never work again.
Also the potato salad kickstarter[0]. Raised $55,000 to make a potato salad. Lots of clones appeared and made about $10.
[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zackdangerbrown/potato-...
Re:I put all my personal data on eBay
by incompatible on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @12:56AM
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I think it would still work in the case of celebrities. For most of us, I guess only a few scammers / enemies / relatives would be interested in the data.
Re:I put all my personal data on eBay
by paulpauper on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @10:47AM
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now at 300
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.
There are some people[0][1][2] want to sell your data and use your data to train ML.
[0] https://synapse.ai/ [1] httsp://datum.org/ [2] http://doct.ai/
Re:I put all my personal data on eBay
by tomcatfish on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @01:19PM
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Second link says sp instead of ps if you care
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 data has little value on its own and as a single profile.
But in bulk, with a correct association between your profile, your recent online queries, expenditures, location and so on it becomes valuable.