Three markets trade your data. Get your price tag in each — free, private, sourced.
Nonrivalry and the Economics of Data
(September 2020) - Data is nonrival: a person's location history, medical records, and driving data can be used by many firms simultaneously. Nonrivalry leads to increasing returns. As a result, there may be social gains to data being used broadly across firms, even in the presence of privacy considerations. Fearing creative destruction, firms may choose to hoard their data, leading to the inefficient use of nonrival data. Giving data property rights to consumers can generate allocations that are close to optimal. Consumers balance their concerns for privacy against the economic gains that come from selling data broadly.
Multi-Homed Personal Data for Education
This blogpost is part of a 20-day project I'm doing for the SURF/NPuls EduWallet Incubator this year, exploring what Personal Data Stores (PDSs) like the Solid Project can add to Wallets.
MyData
The human-centric approach to data is aimed at a fair, sustainable, and prosperous digital society. In such a society, people get value from their data and set the agenda on how it is used. And for organisations, the ethical use of data is always the most attractive option.
Own Your Data
Delete your account or access the personal data organizations have on you using this free service.
Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.
Your Data, Your Control
How data portability can unlock competition and empower consumers January 15, 2026 Copyright and permission to reproduce For information on the Competition Bureau's activities, please contact: Information Centre Competition Bureau 50 Victoria Street Gatineau QC K1A 0C9
Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant
Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.
Data Supply Chains
Data is a critical resource. Like oil, gold, or lithium, both companies and countries covet data. Ultimately, like oil, data’s flow can enrich those that posses
Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving Beyond “Free”
Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving beyond "Free" by Imanol Arrieta-Ibarra, Leonard Goff, Diego Jiménez-Hernández, Jaron Lanier and E. Glen Weyl. Published in volume 108, pages 38-42 of AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2018, Abstract: In the digital economy, user data is typically treated as capi...
Who owns your data?
A Supreme Court case about a bank robbery could redefine your digital rights.
I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead
California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare.
Who Even Cares About Data Ownership Anyway? - What The Function!?
Taking a look at a concept that's been talked a lot over the last few years, especially in the context of social media
MetaMask: Where your money lives
Buy, trade, earn, and spend, all from one app you control.
No one wants to own their data until the platform where their data lives enshittifies to the point of unusability and/or starts selling their data in ways they didn't expect. Like, 99% of ppl are here because Elon owns Twitter. I get why people don't care, but they tend to eventually every time.
