All corporates sells your data. You're a fool to think otherwise, data makes dosh, and you can sell any data for a price.
There are current ten plus folk in the subway carriage I am sitting in right now. Toss me £100 and I'll give you a dataset of what colour tops they're wearing and shoe laces colour.
Well not in bulk to its advertisement competitors as you seem to suggest. But as a different revenue stream, data collectors sell the collected information. Don't be naive, of course they do, first customer are governments.
no, it doesn't sell user data. or, where can I buy some?
Brokers. Acxiom and Experian for starters.
Heck, you can buy facebook datasets right now from brightdata.
https://brightdata.com/products/datasets/facebook
Don't you recall the Cambridge Analytica scandal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica
All corporates sells your data. You're a fool to think otherwise, data makes dosh, and you can sell any data for a price.
There are current ten plus folk in the subway carriage I am sitting in right now. Toss me £100 and I'll give you a dataset of what colour tops they're wearing and shoe laces colour.
They literally don't. Data is their moat; selling it would be counter to their financial success.
Well not in bulk to its advertisement competitors as you seem to suggest. But as a different revenue stream, data collectors sell the collected information. Don't be naive, of course they do, first customer are governments.