Our nalysis looked at three categories:
1Self-reported data, or information people volunteer about themselves, such as their e-mail addresses, work and educational history, and age and gender.
2Digital exhauts, such as location data and browsing history, which is created when using mobile devices.
3Profiling data, or personal profiles used to make predictions about individuals' interests and behaviors.
Out surveys reveal that when data is used to improve a product or service, consumers generally feel the enhancement itself is a fair trade for tehir data.
Firms that sell personal informations to third parties, however, have a particylarly high bar to clear, because consumers expect the most value for such use of their data.