[projectvrm] Citizenme - New personal data vendor hits market

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CitizenMe - App That Lets You Spy on Yourself and Sell Your Own Data  http://www.wired.com/2014/07/citizenme/

From the Wired article:

The long-term plan is to provide a way for you to sell your own online data directly to advertisers and others of your choosing.

You start by connecting your social profiles to the app, which stores your data locally on your phone. Nothing is stored on Citizenme’s servers. So far, the app handles Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, but other services, such as Pinterest, are planned for the future.

Includes this feature in an interesting way to address the TOS issue often discussed here:

“when a company updates its terms of service, Citizenme alerts you and lets you vote on whether you think it’s a good or bad change. “It’s like an anti-virus for terms of service,” Deakins says, even though the outcome of such a vote is purely symbolic.

 

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