The global data brokerage market is worth $300B+. That money flows from buyers to middlemen. The people generating the data see none of it.
Your phone produces location data, purchase history, browsing patterns, health metrics. All of it gets harvested through opaque ToS agreements and tracking pixels. Packaged. Sold. You see $0.
I keep thinking about flipping that. Put the individual as the seller. Your phone isn’t a device that leaks data for free. It’s a collection terminal that generates revenue for you.