Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data

Re:Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech t... by minkzilla on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:50PM (#23608328)

I don’t think this is the problem it is trying to solve but interestingly this could be really beneficial to some very poor countries were the dollar is extremely strong.

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Re:Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech t... by papeda on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:54PM (#23608357)

It depends on how the money gets allotted. The people to whom $5 is most useful are also the people that most advertisers are not interested in targeting in the first place. So if people are compensated according to their value as advertising targets, this seems like it'll be a rich-get-very- slightly-richer program.

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