As user of Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo and similar services - every year you create an excess of US $2,000, created directly from your personal data alone. For corporate entities, the value is even greater. This is only the value represented by data in each of these “data silos”, when you connect this data, the richer and wider the information, the more money it is worth.
They mean, that we can earn 2000$ per year just from our data on their platfrom?
No I dont think so. Thats an hypothetical and I also think optimistic amount. Further it is a total amount wich big players are generating for selling much more than only your data and more important: purposeful. Than there is also the Interface between you and the potencial buyer who wants its piece of the pie (;
That's hypothetical but depending on the value of your date, since every data is not worth the same, it could be more in fact.