I've data mined myself. I've violated my own privacy. Now I am selling it all. But how much am I worth?
Background
I've been inspired by Jonas Lund's Selfsurfing project, Paolo CIrio's projects about Google, Malte Spitz suing a telephone company for data retention and Alex Tew's Million Dollar Page.
Implementation
I spend hours every day surfing the internet. Meanwhile corporations have been using my online information (the websites I visit, what I buy, the videos I watch and more) for their own benefit. In 2012, US advertising revenue was around $30B. In 2012 I made $0 from my data. Why shouldn't I profit from my own data?
Since February 2013 I have recorded my online activity (the HTML pages I have visited, the position of the mouse pointer, a screenshot of what I was looking at, a webcam image of me looking at my computer, the GPS location, a log of the apps that I was using). I'm selling this data for $2.50 a day.
If more people do the same, one day marketers might pay us for our data. It might sound crazy but it could work.
Background
I've been inspired by Jonas Lund's Selfsurfing project, Paolo CIrio's projects about Google, Malte Spitz suing a telephone company for data retention and Alex Tew's Million Dollar Page.
Implementation
I spend hours every day surfing the internet. Meanwhile corporations have been using my online information (the websites I visit, what I buy, the videos I watch and more) for their own benefit. In 2012, US advertising revenue was around $30B. In 2012 I made $0 from my data. Why shouldn't I profit from my own data?
Since February 2013 I have recorded my online activity (the HTML pages I have visited, the position of the mouse pointer, a screenshot of what I was looking at, a webcam image of me looking at my computer, the GPS location, a log of the apps that I was using). I'm selling this data for $2.50 a day.
If more people do the same, one day marketers might pay us for our data. It might sound crazy but it could work.