I allow access to my location data (+15 points), and connect my Facebook (+20 points), LinkedIn (+20), my device info (+25), and my Google accounts. Their app is still in alpha mode, which means it’s still being tested (it’s set to launch in October). At the time of writing, they do not have other opportunities to sell data available.įinally I try Wibson, a company that purchases your data in exchange for “Wibson points,” which can be redeemed for rewards such as Spotify Premium accounts, Visa gift cards and Uber credits. If I had the location data of thousands of people to sell, this process might be worthwhile, but $0.01 is not enough for me to consider it. I move onto Datum, a company still in its early stages of development that advertises itself as a “blockchain data storage and monetisation” company.ĭatum lets me sell them my location data for 1 DAT per month, which is worth about $0.01, according to their app. At 10p, I’ve maxed out my earning potential for CitizenMe. At 1p doesn’t feel like a terrible return – it only takes seconds to answer each question after all – but after I’m done, no new quizzes are available. And although this quiz will gather a speck of information dust compared to the mountains of data Facebook has about me, handing over my information to a company like CitizenMe – deliberately, no less – seems like an unnecessary extra risk.Īfter answering 10 questions, CitizenMe sends £0.10 ($0.13) to my PayPal. Most of the people I mention this experiment to had a knee-jerk reaction against it – their instinct was that we need less of our data floating around the internet, not more.
I’m hoping it does – that’s why I’m here. I take a quiz called “Does your data have value?”. Most of us take part in online quizzes for fun every now and then – why not answer questions about myself for money? One firm, CitizenMe, claims to offer “real-life value from your life online” by paying users to answer quizzes about themselves. One tried-and-true way of making money from your “data” is by filling out online surveys. Since it wasn’t possible to make money with this bunch yet, I decide to focus on three where I can. But at the moment there is no way to convert these ASK into non-crypto assets. Permission.io will pay users in ASK tokens, the company’s own cryptocurrency, to watch advertisements. Another is Datacoup, which isn’t currently open to new users signing up. Many of the firms I found are just starting out, like Ocean Protocol, which launches to the public in early 2019 and will offer a “data exchange protocol to unlock data for artificial intelligence”. I focus on companies that make it possible for me to earn money straight away. I decided to investigate: could my stats be a viable, untapped income? Plus, I’d be earning money from something that until now I’d been giving away for free.
If the promises are true, I will be able to control who uses it (and how). By cutting out the middleman and offering more transparency – and a chance to profit – they say they want to give users the means to monitor how their own data is used in a way that tech giants do not. New companies are emerging, claiming they can finally give us the chance to seize back some ownership of our personal information.
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