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1. Elizabeth K. Joseph (pleia2@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 06:51:26 JST Elizabeth K. Joseph

   I've been reading "Afterlives of Data: Life and Debt under Capitalist Surveillance" and it's forcing me to come to terms with how naive my take on "open data" is when it comes to data about people 🙁

   Even when data is "anonymized" (lol), with enough information from other sources (some of which was hacked/leaked out of compliance with the law) a number of organizations spend a lot of money to bring it all back to us, mostly without regard for ethics.

   https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520307735/afterlives-of-data

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   • Elizabeth K. Joseph (pleia2@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 06:51:35 JST Elizabeth K. Joseph

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     None of this is in the least bit surprising to me, especially since I know how good we're getting at analyzing vast amounts of data. I just didn't want to believe in this future, so I'm certain part of this was my own optimistic denial having a bit too much space in my head.