There is an interesting item that popped up on the CBC website this morning that suggests:
"32 per cent of Canadians are willing to sell all their digital data to the right company for the right price and 45 per cent would sell at least some of it."
Here's the link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/45-of-canadians-willing-to-sell-their-digital-data-1.2517427
It contains some very questionable comments from Canada's interim Privacy Commissioner, Chantal Bernier:
"....Those high numbers didn't surprise interim privacy commissioner Chantal Bernier, who says Canadians have a sophisticated understanding of how their data is used.
"Canadians yes, want to remain in control. They understand there is a monetary value to their personal information and they want to make sure they get their value for it," she said in an interview with CBC's The Lang & O'Leary Exchange."
You can find out more about this research here:
http://advertising.microsoft.com/international/cl/4266/enhancing-the-real
where you can download a pdf that provides a very simplistic overview and doesn't mention any Canadians -- perhaps the Canadians were part of a follow-up study or perhaps they think that they are the same as Americans...
Nigel Waters
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At 08:05 31/01/2014 +0000, Kornbrot, Diana wrote:
>Opting out will almost certainly create bias Personal belief is one
>very varied source including, possibly, trendy lefties and right wing
>libertarians What is correlation between wanting to opt out of europe,
>or indeed the uk and opting out of health database?
>Even more serious, is that people with socially stigmatised or life
>threatening diseases are more likely to opt out - thus delaying
>progress on important health issues
Quite so - as I wrote:
"One can certainly imagine that those, of whatever political beliefs, who do not wish information about their health/illness to be 'shared' might well have patterns of health/illness which differ from in at least some respects from the population in general ..."
Kind Regards,
John
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