Earlier this month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed that perhaps tech companies that make lots of money collecting and monetizing our personal information should share that wealth. He said that people who live in California should get paid a data dividend. Host Molly Wood
talks with
Owen Thomas, the business editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, who recently wrote that
the data dividend idea is overly simplistic and has been tried before. Today's show is sponsored by
Evident,
Brother Printers and
Indeed.