Facebook is offering to pay users for personal data, including recordings of their voices to train the speech recognition system in Portal devices.
Facebook is offering to pay its users for personal information, including recordings of their own voices, in a rare example of internet companies directly compensating people for collecting their data.
Facebook’s move also opens the door to an idea that politicians and regulators have long suggested: that the data Facebook and other online platforms collect is so valuable to the companies and their advertisers that consumers ought to be paid for it.The social network’s Viewpoints app, which was first released three months ago to test new features and survey users, this week began to invite users in the U.S. to say “Hey Portal” and the names of up to 10 friends.
“Competition problems may result in consumers receiving inadequate compensation for their attention and the use of their data,” the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority said in a report on digital advertising in December. “Although many online services are currently provided for free, in a well-functioning market, consumers might be paid for their engagement online, or offered a choice over the amount of data they provide.
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