Topic: for anyone interested in how much their personal data is worth (Read 600 times)

Lol we are being sold for dirt cheap while still holding a valuation that's huge compared to those who don't exist for these data collectors because they collect this data for the sole purpose of throwing their ads in front of us, letting them make hefty commissions out of our purchases. Data business is the world's biggest business and those who speak about privacy, I bet 99% of them don't even know that they're already known to various companies who are targeting them to sell their products, services and even ask for donations (NGOs).

I doubt service providers give out clients phone numbers just for the sake of it. Perhaps they could do so when court ordered or a request from law enforcement.
As to how we get spammy texts, there are a lot of ways which our phone numbers could be compromised. Most times, we’re the one unknowingly or knowingly spreading our numbers all over for whoever interested to pick up. With the number of social media app and dating sites out there that’s being registered on, that also requires phone numbers for registration, it shouldn’t be surprising when we receive spammy texts.

It's obvious they are making a whooping profit from the data's they get or buy from both people that are willing to sell and those they manipulate if not I see no reason what they will be spending money to pay for something that's without value to them.

About the promotional SMS you are right, there was a time I had to put a call through to one of the network service provider I am using to lay a complaint due to the excessive promotional SMS I have been receiving and all they could reply me was that if the messages ain't important to me I should ignore each time I receive any. And it's so annoying that I still receive them to this date. That was how I got an eye-opener that it's all a collaborative business.

I highly doubt that this is true. If this were really true, then journalists would have dug into that and revealed scary truth. Maybe there are phone number dumps, but they arent in bulk and companies try to hide that. Like companies have millions of customers, and some unfair employees sell few thousands numbers on dark market. It is us who treats our privacy irresponsibly. We do have same phone number for tens years and use it everywhere. We are the one who form those personal data bases primary.

Even if that doesn't pose any risk for us or our families, the survey companies that collect personal information from us by either paying us or making promises to give us rewards and money, sell these data to other companies that pay them way more than what they pay us for the information. That is the reason why these survey companies strive to get as much information as they can because they know it's extremely valuable.

Have you ever wondered why and how we get SMS promotional messages from time to time on our personal phone numbers when we don't give our numbers to anyone? It's because the GSM companies that we get our numbers from sell these data to companies that advertise their products and services through it.

The data's are given too low money value so that we don't see it as anything important as people are claiming it to be. I see a lots of data survey companies offering between less than $1-$5 for different degrees of informations about the person and people don't care to know why they will be paying to get their data's if it's not that important.

 The data's we don't care about today in exchange for $10  can be used against us and family in the future that can cost us competitive positions in the society and other things when they get sold into the hands of a rival. People should learn to protect themselves for the future since it's unknown if what will be.

What kind of data do these companies have about an individual? Their browsing behavior, interest, hobby, age, sex, status, etc. They don't have your wallet's private key or your ATM pin number. The scary thing that can happen to you is that you will frequently see some annoying ads or a call from a scammer who is offering you the next dot-com share because he thinks it's your lucky day.

Our data is invaluable to us, and this value depends on which region of the world you are living in. Individual data from any southeast asian country isn't that valuable, and most people from this part of the world actually don't care about it.

All those "free" stuff are actually not free and you are the product. That has always been the case, if you are given something free to use, then you are the product they sell. Places like facebook, instagram, tiktok, twitter all uses you as their product to sell to their customers, the real customers, who are the ad companies.

And I can tell you easily that we are going to end up with a lot of trouble in the future with our data. There are big global brands in the social media that has more information about you than even your government has, and that is going to cause a lot of trouble with power balance, imagine a social media being able to control the public more than a government can, wouldn2t that pose a threat?

That is interesting but most people doesnt really care about their personal data just completely selling it or giving it to companies without even having doubt about it, It is really difficult to protect our personal data these days because big blue chip companies are probably the ones who is selling our personal data we just dont know about it, but personally, it's going to be a different story when we are talking about the KYC data since it can already be used in some scams or identity thief. So I am already cautious when I give my KYC, I only give it to legitimate websites that are already trusted by a lot of people, but even that even big platforms are getting hacked and leaking people's personal data.

so about 0.11$ with a few billion users could easily be a big amount of money for sure, we sure are talking about millions of pesos selling personal data, but I guess this wasn't just a single pay since probably they are going to sell those to a lot of companies where they would get a lot of traffic as per advertising or promoting thing right. The scary thing here is when you actually do a KYC and these days loaning thing is probably a big business with probably only 1 ID you could already loan a fair amount of money which probably going to happen when they leak your ID.

The moment we engaged with online activities, it is where we are already exposed with risks concerning our personal information to it. Not to mention those malwares which would enforce accessing those informations to make use of it in accordance with their purpose.However this imposes risk to all of us and we are all prone to its leakage.

VPN also won’t be enough to stop the risk of leaking our personal informations ‘coz there are platforms we are accessing which included personal information on their policy and  that they’re ones who would decide where would they use it; to good or bad intentions.

Yes, this is the bitter truth of life. All the laws on personal data protection do not work, because they were written by those who collect such data. There are many inconsistencies and loopholes in these laws. Therefore, there is practically no chance to keep the data out of the eyes of others

As long as you are using the internet and accessing any website or service or platform, there is absolutely no way for you to prevent your data from being shared because you can't keep using a VPN your whole life and some platforms don't even allow that. You also can't stop using some platforms that might be important for you, you might have clients or do work at a certain platform and if you use a VPN, you can access it, so you don't have a choice in that case.

They got tactics they use to collect our data and we don't even realize it, even the clicks that we do, the searches we make on any platform including Google, the messages we send between each other, almost each and everything is recorded and sold to companies for some purpose and we are the victims of that.

This type of claims are sometimes funny to me, because today you can generate fake address and IDs online or using software, so how will a scammer using a fake information hurts you? Faces and fingerprints are the most important things online this days, even romance scammers are using someone else identity to carry out fishing acts on their victims, what has this done to the real people whom identity was used to fraud other people? Nothing, because it's not really them.

If someone's identity was stolen, and they use the identity to make illegal transactions, it can be instantly known that the identity was stolen, unless face ID and fingerprints are involved, this is not 1999 it's 2023 for God's sake, things are now more advanced than they used to.

Authorities aren't stupid, some fishing and romance scams are revealed in the US where the stolen identity was borough live on a program, he turned to joke because it's funny how people believe that someone is really who they claimed to be while you haven't done any live videos or video callings with them.

That is a very interesting table, I had no idea our personal information would be so cheap. Somehow, I always thought it would be more expensive to get specific data for individuals like income, age, ethnicity, etc. Given that my salary is much lower and I am already older than 20, I feel a bit cheap that my personal information is not worth more. It kind of makes sense that value of the information is linked to the personal income of a person. But still paying only 1.3 USD for the information of someone that makes 130k a year seems a bit off. Such a high earner has a lot of disposal income and with the right advertising there could be a lot of money be made. The question would be now if it's so easy to acquire a lot of personal information online and that is why companies don't have to pay more for our data. Or most companies still rely on generic advertising and don't use all the personal information. Another thing is that among my friends it's mostly woman that order online, which would make personal information of woman more valuable than men.

Leak data is the scariest thing done to your personal data because someone exploits their database just to get it or even accidentally finds it and if you are lucky that the white hat hacker done it he will just report itif not it goes directly to the dark web where a lot of people will be buying it at a cheap price and those bank customers are not aware that their identity was already sold and we don't know where it was used. What's worse is that you thought that the bank's online security was good but it turns out that it was not which it is difficult to trust online security right now.

Makes clear sense when someone is working on the micro-tasking site. They also segregate the task publishers into Tier 1, 2, and 3 countries. As anyone would guess, Tier 1 is nothing but highly developed countries like Europe, and the USA while the rest of the world follows behind it.

If someone is doing a KYC-related task then a Tier 3 country would have let us say $ 0.20 payout. However, if the same task is being done by a Tier 1 country then the difference is as much as $2 making it 10 times more valuable.

Based on this assumption demographic data is far more valuable than anything else. Even the survey providers follow the same strategy and pay their users likewise. I think what is being represented in the OP falls to correct reality which is both sad and unwanted at the same time. It's personal data, it's better be secure.

Individual data is almost worthless if you think it that way. According to the data, mine should be $0.51. That's not much, but if you combine many and use them in order to target them, then the price would be unimaginable. Many companies collect data in order to target individuals to send advertising so that they can profit from it. Our data is not worth anything to us, but if you think about what it could do then it will be priceless. This is why privacy should be our first priority.

They play with our minds because they can. And it is possible because we gave access to your personal data to them. There are people who still think that there is no such thing as privacy. They never bother to keep their data safe. Those are the people who will get hit hard the most.

It was already known to all of us that our personal data was not protected but the fact that this data was used and priced in certain categories meant that we were in a less secure environment than we expected. Especially in this period when there are many free applications, of course, application developers also sell this data in order to generate income. For this reason, we understand that we need to be more sensitive about the applications we use and the information we provide to these applications.

Although it is not included in this attachment we can be sure that this data is grouped in more detail and many businesses can reach potential customers more easily with higher fees. Who knows how many different classifications are made in this way, including our own data.

There are search engines which claim not to sell or record your data, search history and other methods to build up virtual profiles on yourself online to sell.  Duckduckgo is the biggest one I know of but must be others, I guess they just aim to sell general advertising and privacy is probably quite important motivation to many especially on health and finance concerns to search on.
  The flip side would be signing up for points and gaining something on every search, I think Microsoft is probably most generous on that.   Some kind of daily questionnaire I think they sponsor some points and in time reward for regularly using their products, search engine and browser.   I mostly use them to check spelling, I dont mind if they record my bad spelling really its pretty random.

  Facebook is well known to be one of the biggest, most profitable enterprises and they for sure sell data on people and yet most of that data is submitted voluntarily.  I avoid using real accurate data unless I have to.  I should get a source & I will look but Ive read prior that apparently they at times have used voice recognition to search your voice for commercial data records (mostly to retail or advertising) where possible, I can believe that though it seems extreme.   Test it if you like, say a specific brand name you never use or like (that has a big budget) and see if that advert pops up later.

  US gov said recently Google is spending over a billion to advance its own search engine    Again surprising they need to do so -  https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/09/12/us-says-google-pays-10bn-a-year-to-maintain-search-dominance/

It sucks getting your data sold online but there are a few things you can do to limit it. Try to use strong unique passwords, enable two factor authentication, keep devices & software updated. Limit personal information shared online, get a reputable VPN for encrypted internet traffic. Try to remember to review & adjust privacy settings. Even something as simple as not clicking on suspicious links or downloading unknown files can help. Always use reputable antivirus software & keep it updated.