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If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. In
the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources,
exploitative labour and private property from developing countries.
It made shiny promises to modernise and civilise, but actually
sought to control. It made native populations sign contracts they
didn't understand, and took resources just because they were there.
Colonialism has not disappeared it has taken a new form. In the new
world order where data is the new oil, big Tech companies are
grabbing our most basic natural resources - our data - exploiting
our labour and connections, and repackaging our information to
control our views, track our movements, record our conversations
and discriminate against us. They tell us this is for our own good,
to build innovation and develop new technology. But in fact every
time we unthinkingly click 'Accept' on Terms and Conditions, we
allow our most personal information to kept indefinitely,
repackaged by big Tech companies to control and exploit us for
their own profit. This is the era of data colonialism. The new
colonial landgrab is a DATAGRAB. In this searing, cutting-edge
guide, two leading global researchers and founders of the concept
of data colonialism reveal how history can help us understand the
emerging future - and how we can fight back.
If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. In
the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources,
exploitative labour and private property from developing countries.
It made shiny promises to modernise and civilise, but actually
sought to control. It made native populations sign contracts they
didn't understand, and took resources just because they were there.
Colonialism has not disappeared it has taken a new form. In the new
world order where data is the new oil, big Tech companies are
grabbing our most basic natural resources - our data - exploiting
our labour and connections, and repackaging our information to
control our views, track our movements, record our conversations
and discriminate against us. They tell us this is for our own good,
to build innovation and develop new technology. But in fact every
time we unthinkingly click 'Accept' on Terms and Conditions, we
allow our most personal information to kept indefinitely,
repackaged by big Tech companies to control and exploit us for
their own profit. This is the era of data colonialism. The new
colonial landgrab is a DATAGRAB. In this searing, cutting-edge
guide, two leading global researchers and founders of the concept
of data colonialism reveal how history can help us understand the
emerging future - and how we can fight back.
Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to
"connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not
free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data
transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it
to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process,
this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our
lives—our ways of knowing; our means of production; our political
participation. Colonialism might seem like a thing of the past, but
this book shows that the historic appropriation of land, bodies,
and natural resources is mirrored today in this new era of
pervasive datafication. Apps, platforms, and smart objects capture
and translate our lives into data, and then extract information
that is fed into capitalist enterprises and sold back to us. The
authors argue that this development foreshadows the creation of a
new social order emerging globally—and it must be challenged.
Confronting the alarming degree of surveillance already tolerated,
they offer a stirring call to decolonize the internet and
emancipate our desire for connection.
Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to
"connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not
free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data
transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it
to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process,
this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our
lives—our ways of knowing; our means of production; our political
participation. Colonialism might seem like a thing of the past, but
this book shows that the historic appropriation of land, bodies,
and natural resources is mirrored today in this new era of
pervasive datafication. Apps, platforms, and smart objects capture
and translate our lives into data, and then extract information
that is fed into capitalist enterprises and sold back to us. The
authors argue that this development foreshadows the creation of a
new social order emerging globally—and it must be challenged.
Confronting the alarming degree of surveillance already tolerated,
they offer a stirring call to decolonize the internet and
emancipate our desire for connection.
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