Imagine a Data Union as a way to gather your real-time data along with other users’ information. When someone pays for the crowdsourced data, a portion of the earnings is shared among all participants.
Here you’ll find the latest news and insights about Streamr’s Data Union framework and SDK.
What are Data Unions? A Data Union is a framework, currently being built on the Streamr Marketplace, that allows people to easily bundle and sell their real-time data and earn revenue. On its own, our data does not hold much value, but when combined in a … Read more
The Streamr project decided to join MyData Global in their efforts to move EU data regulation in the right direction. MyData is an NGO, working on transforming the EU’s GDPR from legal into actionable rights. More concretely, this means that they help to empower individual … Read more
The research commissioned last month by Streamr, and carried out by our friends at Wilsome, was designed to shed a light on the public’s general attitudes to data ownership, data privacy and data monetisation, all of which can help Streamr understand what would compel the … Read more
Last year, Streamr’s CEO Henri Pihkala wrote about crowdselling data using Community Products — a new kind of data product made possible by Streamr technology and available via Streamr’s Marketplace. As Henri explained, “What makes a Community Product different from other [data] products is… for … Read more
Changing the data economy is one of the most urgent conversations people around the globe are having at the moment. Just last month, for example, in this incredibly powerful TED Talk, my former journalistic colleague Carole Cadwalladr, articulated just how dangerously flawed our current data … Read more
The way personal data is managed and profited from is a topic that is undoubtedly moving up the political agenda. In February, California’s Governor proposed doling out the proceeds of the information industry with a ‘data dividend’. US Senator Elizabeth Warren has suggested that the … Read more
How do people sell their data? Individuals have certainly tried — offering it up on eBay is one tactic that goes all the way back to the year 2000. But almost two decades on from that early attempt, and despite the fact that the personal data market … Read more