The Multi-Billion Dollar Industry That Makes Its Living From Your Data

"The Multi-Billion Dollar Industry That Makes Its Living From Your Data..."

Graphic and Text:

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/personal-data-ecosystem/

 

And I thought that China's digital surveillance and control is scary...

Interesting infographic and article.

 

Well, perhaps peeps/users should devise a way to insist on some royalty fees.

 

Good article (and loved The Police reference )

And it's not just that the ******* make buck with your data and giving you nothing back.
This kind of unlawfull (yes, there really should be laws against this) profiling can really make a persons life a hell.

Want to get new credit card, insurance, job? Well, too bad. The company that bought profile of you might see you as a "risk factor" (wrong gender/age/race/education/political view etc...) and you won't get any of those.

 

http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-list-brokers-20161028-snap-story.html