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Start-Ups Seek to Help Users Put a Price on Their Personal Data

Posted on February 13, 2012July 2, 2025 by Dissent

Joshua Brustein reports:

… People have been willing to give away their data while the companies make money. But there is some momentum for the idea that personal data could function as a kind of online currency, to be cashed in directly or exchanged for other items of value. A number of start-ups allow people to take control — and perhaps profit from — the digital trails that they leave on the Internet.

“That marketplace does not exist right now, because consumers are not in on the game,” said Shane Green, who founded a company called Personal in 2009.

Read more on The New York Times.

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