Crazy idea: building a service that lets people sell their data for profit.
Link your e-mail or social media account, fill in an account number for payout and hit the button. The service will automatically extract history and personal info from the services, and sell it to advertisers and data brokers. The service retains 10-20% and pays the rest out to the user.
The EU ruled that #payOrOkay is legal, so this is too, right?
If the satirical tone was not obvious, this hypothetical service should be blatantly illegal.
Exchanging rights (like the right to privacy) for a monetary benefit (like reading a subscription newspaper for free) turns the rights into commodities. Something that can be transferred and controlled by others.
We don't allow people to sell their right to vote in elections, so why should we be allowed to sell our right to privacy?
Ban targeted advertising and behavioural tracking.
