Why you should get paid for your data | Jennifer Zhu Scott

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The world's most valuable tech companies profit from the personal data you generate. So why aren't you getting paid for it? In this eye-opening talk, entrepreneur and technologist Jennifer Zhu Scott makes the case for private data ownership—which would empower you to donate, destroy or sell your data as you see fit—and shows how this growing movement could put power (and cash) back into the hands of people.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	Hi everyone, it's MaduPak and Ola with a Ted Business Bonus episode for you.
0:16.8	It's pretty well known that the most profitable companies in the world right now have control
0:21.5	over our precious data.
0:24.0	And in a connected world, we are only generating more and more data for them to use.
0:29.6	In her Ted women talk, entrepreneur and technologist Jennifer Zhu Scott uses her own
0:35.3	life story which began in poverty in West China to help us understand why we should take
0:41.1	personal ownership of our data.
0:43.8	This is a bonus episode, I'll be back with more later this summer.
0:47.7	In the meantime, here's Jennifer.
0:54.9	Support for this podcast comes from BCG.
0:57.3	What you're about to hear is a work of imagination, but not fantasy.
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