data extractivism

  • eg as applies to less-than-ethical research with eg indigenous communities
  • but also as applies to users of Web 2.0 services and platforms, digital forms of data, hidden data flows and data exhaust, the ‘extraction imperative’ that sees wasted opportunity in possibilities for data collection to be sold on to train predictive models (AI ethics)
    • users forcibly becoming data subjects
    • more data is extracted than what is needed for the service
    • beyond online life - data from daily experience, mics in products
    • serving the business model and corporate interest