--- title: Tech: Facebook Should Pay for Our Data description: Why Facebook should pay for our data, how Google could rig the 2016 election, how Amazon's culture is American workplace culture and more. canonical: https://time.com/4007894/facebook-pay-for-our-data/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-24T16:01:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:57.749Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Facebook Should Pay for Our Data og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4007894/facebook-pay-for-our-data/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Facebook Should Pay for Our Data twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Facebook Should Pay for Our Data by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 24, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 24, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Facebook should pay all of us.**](http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/facebook-should-pay-all-of-us) By Tim Wu in the New Yorker **2\.** [**Could Google could rig the 2016 election?**](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/how-google-could-rig-the-2016-election-121548.html#ixzz3jMg5llVT) By Robert Epstein in Politico **3\.** [**Don’t be shocked. Amazon’s culture is the American workplace.**](http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/08/21/most-workers-live-amazon-culture/GJUwg0MksveUUygulezc6K/story.html) By Michael Cohen in the Boston Globe **4\.** [**For Putin, Crimea went from long lost relative to problem child.**](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-24/crimea-is-now-putin-s-problem-child) By Carol Matlack in Bloomberg Business **5\.** [**Are Americans losing their right to walk?**](http://aeon.co/magazine/society/step-by-step-americans-are-sacrificing-the-right-to-walk/) By Antonia Malchik in Aeon  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4007894/facebook-pay-for-our-data/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4007894/facebook-pay-for-our-data/"},"headline":"Facebook Should Pay for Our Data","datePublished":"2015-08-24T16:01:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:57.749Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4007894/facebook-pay-for-our-data/","keywords":["Innovation","russia","Amazon","Google","facebook","walking"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4007894/facebook-pay-for-our-data/","name":"Facebook Should Pay for Our Data"}}]}] ```