Cut Facebook out: Have you considered making money selling your own data?

At the moment, less than one in six people said they'd be likely to sell their data in a global survey of consumer attitudes published by ForgeRock in March

Alice Liogier wants to slap a price on her data.

The 23-year-old graduate student from Paris is researching the commercial use of personal information in the age of big data and she's reached a controversial conclusion: If people really do own their data, then they should be allowed to sell it.

Regulators from Brussels to Beijing are trying to curb the use of personal information and many Facebook users have been reviewing their privacy settings in recent weeks in response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. But Liogier argues that entrepreneurs, officials and executives who want to get to grips with the next