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Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Cybersecurity

Will Microsoft Break the Internet?


...All that might change in the next few years, though, according to a recent article in Business Insider. Turns out that Microsoft is quietly testing a product, code-named "Bali," that would completely disrupt and even destroy the business models of its chief rivals.

Today, online firms gather information about us, and use that information to increase the effectiveness of the ads they display by better targeting them to prospective buyers. Under this business model, Facebook and Google get 90% of the world's online ad revenue.

Microsoft's Bali turns that equation around. With Bali, you own your personal online data, which you can (if you choose) sell to the companies that want to target you with ads. Facebook and Google would only know what you want them to know.

Everything about you would, by default, be private. If you wanted it to remain so, fine. But you'd also have the choice to tell Facebook, Google and other online firms that "you can track me and sell ads to me but only if I get a piece of the action."

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