Getting the Most Out of Your #data
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Your data is very valuable, that’s why you should have ownership and full control over it.How much is your personal data worth? It’s hard to say. A 2013 article in the Financial Times pegged that number at $.007 for each distinct fact about yourself — age, gender, and geographic location to name a few. While that number might not sound like a lot, if you take into account the wide breadth of personal information you can reveal, you’re looking at some serious money.But that $.007/per piece estimate is also from five years ago, which might as well be a century in the tech industry. Silicon Valley was a very, very different place in those years. It was a place where you could buy Bitcoins for $100, where the Giants were World Series champions. Today, I estimate that price of each piece of (...)