One possible way to do that is by getting paid for your data.
This could be social media data, URL data, transaction records from banks, and more.
“Think of Invisibly as your personal data agent,” Vaughn said.
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Why Should You Care?
But why should you care about your data and how it’s used?
“You should care about your data because its used against you.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) notes that data dividends wont fix whats fundamentally wrong with privacy today.
“Having control over your data, I think fundamentally equals having control over your reality.”
The EFF advocates for more laws that make data privacy the default, rather than the data dividend approach.