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n.

Information + intermediary. A company that collects personal data from consumers, markets that data to businesses while maintaining consumer privacy, and offers consumers a percentage of the brokered deals.

"Tipping the balance of power in favor of consumers could create a new industry in the future: agents to negotiate complex consumer information deals. Companies called infomediaries might act as custodians and brokers of customer information, marketing it to businesses on consumers' behalf while protecting their privacy."

— The Futurist, "Selling your privacy; new methods to collect customer information "