How to sell your data!

London start-up Allow Ltd offers to sell your personal information on your behalf and give you 70% of the sale.

As people are becoming more aware of the value of their data, some are seeking to protect it, and sometimes sell it. In January at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, executives and academics gathered to discuss how to turn personal data into an "asset class" by giving people the right to manage and sell it on their own behalf. "Data is a new form of currency"

There is something probably here ….

TRUSTe, has raised $12 million from venture capitalists to expand its privacy services.

Reputation.com Inc. has raised $15 million and tripled its investments in new privacy initiatives including a service that removes people's names from online databases and a tool to let people encrypt their Facebook posts.

Personal Inc has raised $7.6 million for a business that aims to help people profit from providing their personal information to advertisers.