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Data Dealer takes an ironic look at privacy and data ownership.
Although Data Dealer is only a game, the timing of its Kickstarter campaign seems fortuitous.
In Data Dealer, each player starts out with an avatar of a database, a gray anthropomorphic vault containing more than a million profiles and a budget of $5,000.
Data dealer also explains to players the value of different types of information.
Although the first version of Data Dealer is meant only for individual players, the game's developers are raising money on Kickstarter this week to finance an upgraded version that will let people play against one another – and hack each others' databases.
Writing to Facebook's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, justice minister Katarina Barley welcomes some recent changes the company has made around user privacy, describing its decision to limit collaboration with "data dealers" as "a good start", for example.
Offline, federal regulators have been urging real data dealers to make their practices more transparent.
Turns out there's no easy way for consumers in the United States to track the data dealers who profile our spending, Web browsing and social media habits, the better to sell us stuff.
Although hypothetical members of the dating site may think they are anonymous, the game suggests that data dealers could use such disparate details to connect people's dating profiles to their real names.
Eventually, carriers will exist as data dealers.
There were no dealers here, only a data base to match shoppers with dealers in their neighborhoods.
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