How much is your data worth to tech companies? Lawmakers want to tell you, but it's not that easy to calculate
- Written by Samuel Lengen, Research Associate at Data Science Institute, University of Virginia
Your social media data is immeasurably valuable.13_Phunkhod/Shutterstock.comNew proposed legislation by U.S. senators Mark R. Warner and Josh Hawley seeks to protect privacy by forcing tech companies to disclose the “true value” of their data to users.
Specifically, companies with more than 100 million users would have to provide each...
