I am Adam Smith, a 28 year old mechanical engineering student from Missouri.
Sometimes I'm also Dr Ashley Cooper. 62 year oryngolaryngology medical consultant at John Hopkins medical center, preparing for my retirement next year.
Some other times I'm a freelance photographer who travels around the world following my undying love for nature and adventure, while supporting myself with proceeds from the sale of some of the photographs I take.
Now am I a shape-shifting, time traveling wizard with the ability to change my persona anytime I want?
Oh how I wish,.. But NO.
Do I have multiple personality disorder or bipolar disorder or any type of mental condition? .
Oh NO. Hell no!
There's really nothing very special about me.. Except probably one thing. And that's my paranoia. I checked, it's not clinically significant, but it's there nonetheless, and is the reason why I find it very difficult to just give out my personal details to anyone asking. Which is a common thing we see today all over the Internet. Anytime you want to access some particular websites, they want to know who you are, what you do, etc.
Until recently most people have just off handedly given out thier details, because it seemingly doesn't matter and is of no consequence, but honestly, even before the Facebook data debacle and the other privacy violation shenanigans of recent, I never did feel safe giving out my real details, so I used these avatars instead.
Now I'm not deliberately feeding them false information for malicious purpose, and I don't have a diabolical plan or anything like that. I simply have some unanswered questions. For one, who is this information going to?. For another, what will they use it for, and what will I gain from it?. It really is nothing personal
I know I'm not alone, the fact is, there are millions of people out there who are uncomfortable with just dishing out their personal details to anyone who comes up asking, and this being a prerequisite for some websites, it has only become necessary to give out false details. Nothing personal
Now Imagine if a startup or a business venture was to be built on such false information acquired from these nonsensical collections. Certainly, you'd expect it to fail miserably and crumble upon itself within a few months or years simply because the targeted customer base is nonexistent. I mean, even though I'm Pretty sure Dr Cooper would have loved to hire e a vacation planner next year to plan her retirement vacation.... If she existed. But she doesn't, and a vacation startup targeted towards her and others like her would see no patronage.
So we have a problem. On one hand, People like me who are unwilling to give out accurate personal details indiscriminately, on the other, we have companies and startups that are willing to do anything to acquire this data. Even paying for it, but still not getting accurate information
The solution from Pdata, and the Opiria platform is to create a level playground where you and I can sell our personal data to companies that may need it, in exchange for DATA tokens. This is an ideal solution in that
The data will be completely anonymized so that your privacy is ensured. No one can trace it back to you, so paranoid people like me feel safe.
You get paid when someone uses your information. In DATA tokens which you can then convert to real cash.
I mean, I don't know about you but If I'm sure my data is safe and secure, and I'm also getting paid for it, I see no reason to hide anything, and neither should you.
Want to know more about the future of your privacy?
Check out the website (https://opiria.io).
Whitepaper . (https://opiria.io/static/docs/Opiria-PDATA-Whitepaper.pdf)
Bitcointalk Announcement(https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3076122.new#new)
