[MyData & Open Data] we have a price: 11KEUR/personal medical data

Sat May 3 14:44:42 UTC 2014

On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 07:11:28AM -0700, P Kishor wrote:
> Value of anything is what someone is willing to pay for it. For the
> wheelers and dealers of the info marketplace, your individual info is worth
> only 26 cents (and that, actually, sounds like a lot, because most likely
> they will send you a million spams with your info, 999999 of which will be
> caught by your spam filter). However, for you, protecting that info might
> be worth a lot more [...]

i think you raise a key point, the economic one:

the profit margins given the current the cheap market-price of personal data
create economic incentives that are harmful to a free society.

however i believe in a market with information asymmetry biased against the
sellers, their perceived value of their personal data is irrelevant in this
context. just think of all the facebook users.

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