Many German Facebook users would give up their privacy for eight dollars a month. US users already for around three dollars.
Germans value their privacy more than twice as much as Americans
The Germans would charge the most money for sensitive data.
South American countries would share these with social media platforms for far less money.
German Facebook users would disclose sensitive data to the social media platform, such as their account balance, if they received around eight dollars (7.35 euros) per month in return.
This means that Germans value their privacy more than twice as much as Americans, who would disclose everything for just $3.50 a month, according to a study by the US think tank Technology Policy Institute .
Conflict with data protection
“According to the GDPR, Facebook can collect this data if a person explicitly agrees to it. However, conflicts can and will arise with the views of Facebook's data protection officer.
The task of the officers is to monitor the protection of the personal data of each individual. “Facebook would also have to adhere to the documentation requirements, which involves a lot of technical and organizational effort,”
explains data protection expert Alexander Dobert to pressetext.
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In addition to Germany and the USA, the analysts also examined the countries of Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia. A total of 15,600 adults from these countries took part in four different surveys.
Respondents from the four South American countries would give up their data for even less money than those from Germany and the USA.
Location is cheapest
On average, a platform like Facebook would have to pay $8.44 a month to access the account balances of users from the six countries examined. Respondent fingerprints cost $7.56 and text messages cost $6.05.
For just $1.82 a month, Facebook can see the location of its users. A majority of those surveyed would even allow themselves to receive advertising from Facebook via text message for free.
Related to the topic: Facebook / Max Schrems: The data protection officer's trial against Facebook is reaching its finale
Source: press text
Article image: Shutterstock / By Rokas Tenys
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