Networks of Control: A Report on Corporate Surveillance, Digital Tracking, Big Data & Privacy by Wolfie Christl, Sarah Spiekermann
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Overview: In his book "How Our Days Became Numbered’’ historian Dan Bouk looks into how life insurers started to predict people’s lives and their relative risk of death at the end of the nineteenth century. A few companies started to quantify, sort and rate people, based on statistical models and rough demographic information. Today, a vast landscape of partially interlinked databases has emerged which serve to characterize each one of us. Whenever we use our smartphone, a laptop, an ATM or credit card, or our ‘smart’ TV sets detailed information is transmitted about our behaviors and movements to servers, which might be located at the other end of the world. A rapidly growing number of our interactions is monitored, analyzed and assessed by a network of machines and software algorithms that are operated by companies we have rarely ever heard of. Without our knowledge and hardly with our effectively informed consent, our individual strengths and weaknesses, interests, preferences, miseries, fortunes, illnesses, successes, secrets and – most importantly -purchasing power are surveyed. If we don’t score well, we are not treated as equal to our better peers. We are categorized, excluded and sometimes invisibly observed by an obscure network of machines for potential misconduct and without having any control over such practices.
While the media and special interest groups are aware of these developments for a while now, we believe that the full degree and scale of personal data collection, use and – in particular – abuse has not been scrutinized closely enough. This is the gap we want to close with the study presented in this book.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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