{"id":4147,"date":"2020-01-19T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2020-02-26T00:14:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T18:44:14","slug":"who-is-profiting-from-our-data-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/who-is-profiting-from-our-data-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is profiting from our data? &#8211; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">It is important to understand Who and How they are profiting from our personal data. Gregory Barber a staff writer of Wired tried to sell his own data through sites like Datum, Doc.ai and Wibson amongst others. He made precisely 0.3 cents.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>So how does this work? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William Poundstone, Author of \u201cThe Doomsday Calculation\u201d wrote a detailed answer on Quora and It was linked to by Forbes. In the 18th century,  by Reverend Thomas Bayes devised Bayes\u2019 Theorem which is now used \u201cto transmute the base metal of personal data into the gold of actionable predictions. The real power of Bayes\u2019 theorem is when you can ..make very unobvious predictions\u2014about what you\u2019re going to buy, how much you\u2019re willing to pay, who you\u2019re going to vote for.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.pitch.link\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/26001331\/385.jpg?resize=800%2C564&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.pitch.link\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/26001331\/385.jpg?resize=800%2C564&#038;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.pitch.link\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/26001331\/385.jpg?resize=800%2C564&#038;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.pitch.link\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/26001331\/385.jpg?resize=800%2C564&#038;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies are selling your data make pretty much what Gregory made &#8211; like 10 cents \/ person. However the \u2018Social Security number of someone with good credit\u2026can sell for $60-$80. This is where it transcends into grey and then black. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2018 article by Max Eddy for PC Magazine provides perspectives of the how and what of your data. Read them through as we decide for ourselves how we intend to manage our privacy and our personal data.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where I learnt this #385 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How Companies Turn Your Data Into Money <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/in.pcmag.com\/abine-blur\/126193\/how-companies-turn-your-data-into-money\">https:\/\/in.pcmag.com\/abine-blur\/126193\/how-companies-turn-your-data-into-money<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How Do Tech Companies Make Money From Our Personal Data? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/quora\/2019\/06\/27\/how-do-tech-companies-make-money-from-our-personal-data\/#4879a29e4788\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/quora\/2019\/06\/27\/how-do-tech-companies-make-money-from-our-personal-data\/#4879a29e4788<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I Sold My Data for Crypto. Here&#8217;s How Much I Made <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/i-sold-my-data-for-crypto\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/i-sold-my-data-for-crypto<\/a>\/\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is important to understand Who and How they are profiting from our personal data. Gregory Barber a staff writer of Wired tried to sell his own data through sites like Datum, Doc.ai and Wibson amongst others. He made precisely 0.3 cents.<\/p>\n<\/p><div class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/who-is-profiting-from-our-data-2\/\" class=\"btn btn-small btn--dark btn-hover-shadow\"><span class=\"text\">Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"seoicon-right-arrow\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,247],"tags":[70,180,212],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-learnt-today","category-privacy","tag-alwayslearning","tag-privacy","tag-data"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Subhanjan Sarkar","author_link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/author\/subhanjan\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paX7jg-14T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}