A new data broker [ offers to pay people directly ]( http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/05/datacoup-consumer-sell-data-control-privacy-advertising ) for their personal data. Datacoup's existence by itself will not eliminate ordinary data brokers; something more is required. Supposing that something more appears, and other data brokers disappear, how much better will this be? I would not give any data to the services that Datacoup works with. In fact, the only one of them I might consider using is Twitter, precisely because one doesn't have to give real personal data to it. Therefore, I would not be interested in making such data available for a mere $10 or $100 or $1000 a month.
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