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03-25-2017, 04:56 PM
Tired of big companies using your data for profit? Use yours for good
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A new startup wants to help you transform the simple, everyday task of shopping online into social good.
Data Does Good (https://www.datadoesgood.com/), a company founded by two students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, lets you donate your Amazon.com shopping history and turn it into hard cash for good causes — at ** extra cost.
SEE ALSO: This Chrome extension helps you find ethical shopping alternatives — and saves you money (http://mashable.com/2016/11/28/donegood-ethical-shopping/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The website takes your a**nymous and encrypted shopping history and sells it to brands and retailers looking for trends and valuable marketing information about its consumers, like gender and age. As a public benefit corporation (essentially a hybrid between a for-profit company and a **nprofit), Data Does Good earns money to make the business sustainable, but it donates the majority of its proceeds to any charity of your choice. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/03/24/data-does-good-online-shopping-charity/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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A new startup wants to help you transform the simple, everyday task of shopping online into social good.
Data Does Good (https://www.datadoesgood.com/), a company founded by two students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, lets you donate your Amazon.com shopping history and turn it into hard cash for good causes — at ** extra cost.
SEE ALSO: This Chrome extension helps you find ethical shopping alternatives — and saves you money (http://mashable.com/2016/11/28/donegood-ethical-shopping/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The website takes your a**nymous and encrypted shopping history and sells it to brands and retailers looking for trends and valuable marketing information about its consumers, like gender and age. As a public benefit corporation (essentially a hybrid between a for-profit company and a **nprofit), Data Does Good earns money to make the business sustainable, but it donates the majority of its proceeds to any charity of your choice. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/03/24/data-does-good-online-shopping-charity/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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