Brittany Kaiser

To be honest, it's hard when you're knee-deep in the trenches of an industry to see it how others see it. ”

I think of myself as intelligent and strong and principled. ”

I hadn't lived in the U.S. for my entire adult life, so a lot of U.S. news agencies, I just had no idea. ”

The use of data for political purposes wasn't invented by Cambridge Analytica. ”

Corporations like Google, Facebook, Amazon, all of these large companies, are making tens or hundreds of billions of dollars off of monetising people's data. ”

Imagine if Facebook's users received a universal basic income every day. This isn't going to be easy because it means that inherently their business model is going to take a little bit of a pay cut. ”

If we want protection, we need to start thinking of our data as our property, because, if no one has noticed, property is held up and protected legally. ”

In order to create predictive algorithms, you need to have a training set. So, that training set is created through our quantitative surveys. Those surveys need to include either basic market research questions or basic political polling questions, which might be added to get your opinion on a brand or an issue or a candidate. ”

Individuals should be able to monetise their own data - that's their own human value - not to be exploited. ”

The biggest companies in the world right now are made up of trillions of dollars of digital assets that really, in my opinion, should belong to us as individuals. ”