# Why you should get paid for your data

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDWomen 2019
- Speaker: Jennifer Zhu Scott
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Economics, Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_zhu_scott_why_you_should_get_paid_for_your_data)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Why you should get paid for your data](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/jennifer_zhu_scott_why_you_should_get_paid_for_your_data/f3d1fbafe66e), 15 min (TED's player)