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Why you should get paid for your data

Jennifer Zhu Scott · TED

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The world's most valuable tech companies profit from the personal data you generate. So why aren't you getting paid for it? In this eye-opening talk, entrepreneur and technologist Jennifer Zhu Scott makes the case for private data ownership -- which would empower you to donate, destroy or sell your data as you see fit -- and shows how this growing movement could put power (and cash) back into the hands of people.

The talk

  1. Why you should get paid for your data 15 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDWomen 2019
Speaker
Jennifer Zhu Scott
Year
2019
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Economics, Business and management
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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