Due to the lack of consumer protections, the US now accounts for 51% of the global data industry.
The global big data analytics market size was valued at USD 307.51 billion in 2023. The market is projected to grow from USD 348.21 billion in 2024 to USD 924.39 billion by 2032, exhibiting a CAGR of 13.0% during the forecast period. The U.S. Big Data Analytics Market is anticipated to grow significantly, reaching an estimated value of USD 248.89 billion by 2032, driven by Increasing Adoption of Databases across Industries.
Source: https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/big-data-analytics-market-106179
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It’s crazy the amount of AI image and video generators popping up right now that are “free” if you would just be a sweetie and give them your email address. I had one recently that only allowed gmail, presumably to make it harder for people to just use an anti spam inbox. People just don’t realise how valuable a fresh, active email address is. If I see anything like that these days I nope out immediately.
How valuable is it?
Well, potentially a lot, specially when sold for crossing data with other sources. I worked in a place willing to lose millions of dollars a month, without profit, hoping that eventually in 1 or 2 years the few bits of personal info they were capturing could be sold.
Also worked on another place that aggregated all public info available for everyone and allowed with 2 clicks understand many things about a person and all their family for example.
No one knows
Very.
What are they going to do with it
It’s basically your ID on the internet, at least if you’re the regular person using same address everywhere.
So you don’t use anything that requires an email address? That’s everything lol
Hey, brother! Can you spare an IP address? Perhaps some browser cookies?
Not to defend wanton personal data sharing but a major difference is that giving money away deprives someone of that money while copying data deprives them of nothing, or at least the downstream effects are much less felt. This comes up a lot in the ethics of piracy.
while copying data deprives them of nothing
it deprives them of their privacy
and depending on future laws, it may deprive them of their freedom or job opportunities,
or UBI, car, home, or health insurance, or medical care, etc.
