We share an enormous amount of data with companies which is often used to train machine learning systems and improve their performance. While the benefits to the companies are obvious, consumers are often compensated with very little — if anything at all. Precious Data
In a highly interconnected globalized world, data is everything. Regarding the economics of “big data,” some people have called data the new oil. Companies get precious bits of information from us — which, more often than not, we give for free in exchange for some form of personalized web service, such as signing up for […]
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