As data trafficking eclipses the value of oil, a new kind of slavery looms. Expanding the definition of personhood may be our only defense. The most grotesque bits of history have been deemed “lawful” only by a simple trick of semantics—designating victims
Well damn. Here's the thing that bothers me personally (pun intended)- If small businesses want to step away from the Facebook, IG, google, yelp game how do we create essential visibility for our companies. My unfortunate reality is that if I don't play the game, I lose clients and an ability to sustain my business. Another system/structure would be brilliant but in the same breath seems impossible.
Thank you again ,,value information , yes we are outside , I receive daily calls from Japan , China, Indonesia ? And so on , I speak about something and very fast they suggest things about that , crazy, I cut with many social media even I don’t use that much ,still I feel they are using me
Thank you for your acute insight, Alex. Truly enlightening. Sad what we have come to just for the sake of making a buck. When you think about it we’ve always been just commodity.
i wonder if the human traficking line is entirely useful. because i feel like it steers away unnecessarily from the standard critique in that work is exploitation and that capitalism forces you to sell work/labor power. in a way, there's no substantial difference between action and digital action. in that sense, i think that the fungibility-inalienability argument could be applied to labor power in general. but that it isn't tied to the fact that you can be re-identified (that remains a privacy issue). because the datasets are generaly not used (and not valuable) because you can identify people, but precicely to learn about more general patterns etc. which means it really doesn't matter who's who specifically. it's just like very very "unskilled labor" in a way (in that workers are in fact repalceable and replaced). in that sense, i feel like the campaign to get paid for data may have some issues with it, but if companies needed to pay billions of people (however small the fee for an individual) it would become more difficult to do what is currently being done. those are just some thoughts. i really like reading your stuff and it's really cool that you're doing it:)
Well damn. Here's the thing that bothers me personally (pun intended)- If small businesses want to step away from the Facebook, IG, google, yelp game how do we create essential visibility for our companies. My unfortunate reality is that if I don't play the game, I lose clients and an ability to sustain my business. Another system/structure would be brilliant but in the same breath seems impossible.
Thank you again ,,value information , yes we are outside , I receive daily calls from Japan , China, Indonesia ? And so on , I speak about something and very fast they suggest things about that , crazy, I cut with many social media even I don’t use that much ,still I feel they are using me
Thank you for your acute insight, Alex. Truly enlightening. Sad what we have come to just for the sake of making a buck. When you think about it we’ve always been just commodity.
i wonder if the human traficking line is entirely useful. because i feel like it steers away unnecessarily from the standard critique in that work is exploitation and that capitalism forces you to sell work/labor power. in a way, there's no substantial difference between action and digital action. in that sense, i think that the fungibility-inalienability argument could be applied to labor power in general. but that it isn't tied to the fact that you can be re-identified (that remains a privacy issue). because the datasets are generaly not used (and not valuable) because you can identify people, but precicely to learn about more general patterns etc. which means it really doesn't matter who's who specifically. it's just like very very "unskilled labor" in a way (in that workers are in fact repalceable and replaced). in that sense, i feel like the campaign to get paid for data may have some issues with it, but if companies needed to pay billions of people (however small the fee for an individual) it would become more difficult to do what is currently being done. those are just some thoughts. i really like reading your stuff and it's really cool that you're doing it:)