Your Data Is Crucial to a Robotic Age. Shouldn’t You Be Paid for It? – The New York Times

You are the product, and your data is being sold, so yes makes sense that you get paid for losing your “privacy and mindspace”

Interesting opening for a new kind of technology revolution, will people bite?

Your Data Is Crucial to a Robotic Age. Shouldn’t You Be Paid for It? – The New York Times

And yet the idea is gaining momentum in Silicon Valley and beyond: Facebook and the other technological Goliaths offering free online services — from which they harvest data from and about their users — should pay for every nugget of information they reap. The spring break pictures on Instagram, the YouTube video explaining Minecraft tactics, the internet searches and the Amazon purchases, even your speed following Waze on the way to spend Thanksgiving with your in-laws — this data is valuable. It will become more valuable, potentially much more so, in the not-too-distant future.