Post by account_disabled on Feb 15, 2024 10:45:30 GMT
The True Scale of This Transformation Must Be Understood Within the Framework of Historys Largest Campaign to Annex Neverbeforeexploited Resources Colonialism. Under the Guise of Companies Working to Alleviate Peoples Mental Health Instabilities a Basic Form of Asset Grabbing is Underway. After All Until Recently the Very Idea That Our Mental Healthall the Data That Represents and Tracks Itcould Be a Trading Asset on a Balance Sheet Would Have Seemed Strange. But Today It is Becoming Common. It is a Facet of What Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejas Have Called Data Colonialism.
The Four Corporations Are Part of a Broader Commercial Sector Focused on Exploiting New Definitions of Knowledge and Rationality Aimed at Data Mining. Through the Habitual Appropriation of Sensitive Data and the Capture of Many Other Social Domains Health Portugal Email List Education and Law to Name a Few We Are Moving Towards the Unlimited Capitalization of Life as Couldry and Mejas Describe It. The Normalization of Wearable Devices as Tools That Individuals Carry Supposedly to Manage Their Health Both Psychological and Physical is Part of This Process That Turns Everyday Life Into a Flow of Data Susceptible to Appropriation for Profit.
Apples Mindfulness Application and Fitbits Log Mood Are Just Two Examples of How Technological Giants After Having Colonized the Territory of the Body Now Have Their Sights Set on the Psyche. Data Colonialism Like Previous Stages of Colonialism Disproportionately Affects Those Who Are Already Marginalized. For One Thing the Technologies Involved Are Sometimes Biased Against Marginalized Groups as Highlighted by a Recent Lawsuit Against Apple Over the Alleged Racial Bias of the Apple Watchs Blood Oxygen Reader.
The Four Corporations Are Part of a Broader Commercial Sector Focused on Exploiting New Definitions of Knowledge and Rationality Aimed at Data Mining. Through the Habitual Appropriation of Sensitive Data and the Capture of Many Other Social Domains Health Portugal Email List Education and Law to Name a Few We Are Moving Towards the Unlimited Capitalization of Life as Couldry and Mejas Describe It. The Normalization of Wearable Devices as Tools That Individuals Carry Supposedly to Manage Their Health Both Psychological and Physical is Part of This Process That Turns Everyday Life Into a Flow of Data Susceptible to Appropriation for Profit.
Apples Mindfulness Application and Fitbits Log Mood Are Just Two Examples of How Technological Giants After Having Colonized the Territory of the Body Now Have Their Sights Set on the Psyche. Data Colonialism Like Previous Stages of Colonialism Disproportionately Affects Those Who Are Already Marginalized. For One Thing the Technologies Involved Are Sometimes Biased Against Marginalized Groups as Highlighted by a Recent Lawsuit Against Apple Over the Alleged Racial Bias of the Apple Watchs Blood Oxygen Reader.