I think in a age of excitable people and easily offended internet users, the most valuable type of data that could be collected is the data of what companies are collecting what. Sort of like how the best power is the one that over powers the rest, the one ring to rule them all, the best Pokemon is ditto because it can turn into any of the other Pokemon. Instead of specializing in one specific type of data, your collection becomes all the more valuable when it can tell you about what type of data is being collected. Then you can create an app informing others about the data that’s being collected by which company.<\/p>\n
This would incite two things. First, companies may decide to force\/sue\/pay you to stop sharing their data. While all of these methods are possible, i’d like to think that paying you to keep quiet on their data collection might be their best option if they want to avoid the public eye. This would give you two more bits of data: the fact that they want to hide their data, and what data they’re trying to hide. Either way, these are two more implicating pieces of information, giving you both value, and power (hypothetically).<\/p>\n
The second is that people using your app might learn from it. They might see who is tracking what, and begin to ask why. At first they may freak out, thinking that tracking always equals scamming. However, many might see all that the collected data has done. They might see that they do not care, for the services or conveniences that they receive in exchange for their data. We as a public audience and data labor force, might reach a new understanding of how our media\/marketing\/entertainment economy works. During our class, JJ has been an awesome devil’s advocate, quelling our outrage at the mysterious forces that collect our data under our noses without us knowing. Not only have we learned the prevalence of data collection in almost every aspect in our daily life, but we’ve learned that it is not inherently malicious, and that we probably don’t care anyway.<\/p>\n
So I must say that I do not condemn all companies for their data-for-services method of exchange. Honestly, it’s not like we were using the fact that we prefer one restaurant over another to entertain ourselves on a quite Tuesday night. Our preferences were our own for the longest time, and they did almost nothing for us. Now they are more valuable then they have ever been. Currently, my Spotify app is getting the most data from me, seeing as i’ve been using it every morning while I get ready for school. I don’t mind hearing adds if it means I don’t have to pay \u00a0the $5 or $6 to use the same service without ads. I don’t mind letting Spotify know that I don’t wanna hear a particular song, one that i’ve already put in my song list, that early int he morning if that means i’ll get a better mix of the music I already enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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