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Re:I put all my personal data on eBay by sytelus on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @12:37AM (#17176534)
This is not a satire. I can easily see a service where people can simple upload their FB data and the service bundles it up in to groups of 10,000 for sell, takes 30% cut and distributes rest of the proceeds. There are tons of folks who have most of their posts public on FB would be willing to do this. There are companies who wants to model users, train/test algorithms would be willing to pay for it.
Re:I put all my personal data on eBay by Mononokay on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @02:05AM (#17176834)
It's...still satire.
Re:I put all my personal data on eBay by majewsky on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @04:58AM (#17177509)
Poe's law applies.
Re:I put all my personal data on eBay by blackoil on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @08:12AM (#17178367)
How will it be verified if profile is real or fake?
Re:I put all my personal data on eBay by John_KZ on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @12:48PM (#17180829)
This is a major problem. There's no guarantee the data is real, and most of the people who have to sell their old data clearly don't have much buying power regardless.

But, imagine if they were selling a real-time feed of what they're actually browsing. Imagine if authenticity verification was possible by closed software and hardware (totally not pointing android here). Then the data would definitely be worth something. And the more "clients" you have, the more they're worth.

Re:I put all my personal data on eBay by blanche_ on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @02:18PM (#17181682)
I think you could easily train machine learning algorithm to do that.