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Data as Property? | Phenomenal World
In the digital economy, user data is typically treated as capital created by corporations observing willing individuals. This neglects users' roles in creating data, reducing incentives for users, distributing the gains from the data economy unequally, and stoking fears of automation. Instead, treating data (at least partially) as labor could help ... See more
Ethan Mollick • Article
The extraction is so grotesque, so creepy, that it is almost impossible to see how anyone who really thinks about it lives with it – and yet we do. There’s something about its opacity, its insidiousness, that makes it hard to think about, just as it’s hard to think about climate change, a process that will inevitably undo society as we currently un
... See moreJames Bridle • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Review – We Are the Pawns
So we had better call upon our lawyers, politicians, philosophers, and even poets to turn their attention to this conundrum: how do you regulate the ownership of data? This may well be the most important political question of our era. If we cannot answer this question soon, our sociopolitical system might collapse. People are already sensing the co
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
There is an ongoing debate about the trade-offs between personalized experiences and privacy, with growing calls for regulations to protect user data.
Samuel Thorpe • The Essential Beginner’s Guide to AI
Streaming sites have thus transformed into enterprises whose business is not limited to the sale of music-related services, but relies increasingly upon the collection, aggregation, and exchange of user data. A key issue this article pursues concerns the changing status of music within the commercial strategies of online streaming. While previous r... See more
Eric Drott • Music as a Technology of Surveillance
If people could monetize their data, it would be a win-win situation because people would earn extra income and the government could use the data to track the spread of the coronavirus and the health of the population