Gavin Newsom's proposal to make Facebook pay you for your data is completely unworkable

Germany orders Facebook to change the way it gathers data

London (CNN Business) Germany is moving to break up Facebook's dominant position in gathering data about social media users. The country's antitrust office ruled Thursday that Facebook is abusing its virtual monopoly in social media by combining data from Instagram, WhatsApp and third party websites. Facebook FB The office saidused the data to build a unique profile about each user to gain more market power. "We are carrying out what can be seen as an internal divestiture of Facebook's data," said Andreas Mundt, the president of the antitrust office. "Facebook will no longer be allowed to force its users to agree to the practically unrestricted collection and assigning of non-Facebook data to their Facebook user accounts."

Facebook pulls the plug on its data snooping Onavo VPN service

besides Facebook is shutting down its controversial Onavo VPN app, and will end its practice of conducting unpaid market research programs, TechCrunch reports. Although paid research studies will continue through other means, the company says it will ensure users explicitly understand their privacy implications. However, code from the service lived on in the Facebook Research app, which paid teenagers as much as $20 a month for access to all their phone activity data. Related The secret lives of Facebook moderators in AmericaAfter details of the Facebook Research app emerged, Apple removed that too from its App Store. For now, Facebook's research app still runs on Android.

Gavin Newsom's proposal to make Facebook pay you for your data is completely unworkable

Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., proposes: that those who collect data and then profit from it should be paying a digital dividend back to us, the providers of that initial data. As Newsom suggests , those companies which collect data should be paying out a dividend to those they collect it from. The tech companies do have that. The tech companies are the systems which process and add value here, they're the people who should be gaining the value add. So, the maximum return we're likely to gain from a data dividend is what, $2.50 a month?

Germany orders Facebook to change the way it gathers data

London (CNN Business) Germany is moving to break up Facebook's dominant position in gathering data about social media users. The country's antitrust office ruled Thursday that Facebook is abusing its virtual monopoly in social media by combining data from Instagram, WhatsApp and third party websites. Facebook FB The office saidused the data to build a unique profile about each user to gain more market power. "We are carrying out what can be seen as an internal divestiture of Facebook's data," said Andreas Mundt, the president of the antitrust office. "Facebook will no longer be allowed to force its users to agree to the practically unrestricted collection and assigning of non-Facebook data to their Facebook user accounts."

Gavin Newsom's proposal to make Facebook pay you for your data is completely unworkable

referring to Facebook is shutting down its controversial Onavo VPN app, and will end its practice of conducting unpaid market research programs, TechCrunch reports. Although paid research studies will continue through other means, the company says it will ensure users explicitly understand their privacy implications. However, code from the service lived on in the Facebook Research app, which paid teenagers as much as $20 a month for access to all their phone activity data. Related The secret lives of Facebook moderators in AmericaAfter details of the Facebook Research app emerged, Apple removed that too from its App Store. For now, Facebook's research app still runs on Android.

Facebook pulls the plug on its data snooping Onavo VPN service

Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., proposes: that those who collect data and then profit from it should be paying a digital dividend back to us, the providers of that initial data. As Newsom suggests , those companies which collect data should be paying out a dividend to those they collect it from. The tech companies do have that. The tech companies are the systems which process and add value here, they're the people who should be gaining the value add. So, the maximum return we're likely to gain from a data dividend is what, $2.50 a month?