Facebook Considered Charging for Access to User Data

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How is this different than any other company in any other industry? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Information_broker" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Information_broker</a><p>This is credit agencies&#x27; entire business model and you can&#x27;t even opt out&#x2F;close your account

I&#x27;d actually be down with this, but only if facebook gave user&#x27;s the ability to lock their own data down at fair market price. That way the user pays for a product, or decides to be the product. It&#x27;s clean and cut &amp; dry; and there wouldn&#x27;t be any illusions of a &quot;free&quot; service.

Isn&#x27;t their ad product already effectively charging for access to the user data? In a slightly more obfuscated way, sure, but broadly the same?

So what, we&#x27;ve all considered bad ideas.

Even if customers pay for a service, isn&#x27;t it likely that eventually the service will <i>also</i> want to sell their data anyway in order to increase margins?

They already did this experiment years ago. They had a product called Pylon with Datasift. Rumor had it people thought it was a cool idea, in theory, but few people had any practical uses for it.

The real question is, did they decide not to because they realized it was unethical? Or because they felt it was too risky to public perception?

Profit sharing would be interesting.

When the product is free, it isn&#x27;t the product. You are the product.

Like Google employee Facebook employee would have done something, if they were any good.<p>Sorry for being harsh.<p>Reference: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;27&#x2F;read-google-employees-open-letter-protesting-project-dragonfly.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;27&#x2F;read-google-employees-open-l...</a><p>Hanging more good quotes in the facebook&#x27;s office wall doesn&#x27;t make you any good, you are part of an organisation that creating more problems in the world, you are the reason. Unless you act and do your part.