Why Getting Paid for Your Data Is a Bad Deal

Re:Why Getting Paid for Your Data Is a Bad Deal by pmiller2 on Monday November 23, 2020 @06:25AM (#25185625)

Sure, but it doesn't matter if you sell to 1, 2, or 5 companies: they've all priced this in to their individual models, which means you can't really get any better with any individual company by, say, giving them an exclusive license to this particular data. But, in aggregate, you can do better selling to more companies than any individual model prices in. Which means the Nash equilibrium here is, unfortunately, a race to the bottom, but, it remains to be seen if we've reached that or not.

Hmmm.

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Re:Why Getting Paid for Your Data Is a Bad Deal by krageon on Monday November 23, 2020 @06:51AM (#25185756)

You as an individual don't matter. On average people will sell to a certain amount of companies, that's what will be factored in. Perhaps you can get a slightly better deal selling to twice as many companies, though of course this gives you extra hassle as well (which has a cost). The benefits you will receive are in any case marginal, of necessity. I do not deny they can be bigger than the company's benefits in individual cases.

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