Surveillance Pricing Is Ripping You Off. Here’s How to Fight It. – The Cut
What if the retailer that sold you both of these items had raised their prices slightly, just for you, based… read more
Time to Delete? The Most Invasive Apps List Includes Some of Your Favorites – PCMag
The best way to prevent companies from taking your data is to remove invasive apps from your phone. Instead of… read more
Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers – Wired
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is proposing a rule that would allow regulators to police data brokers under the Fair… read more
Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto as Redaction Poetry (Grosser)
In October 2023, the influential Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published what he titled his Techno-Optimist Manifesto, an anti-regulation… read more
Obedience [poem] – Ben Mirov
What is your [master] doing—I don’t know. I’m not privy—Is your [master] making war— I don’t know. I’m not… read more
Insurers Are Spying on Your Home From the Sky – Wall Street Journal
Across the U.S., insurance companies are using aerial images of homes as a tool to ditch properties seen as higher… read more
Librarians Are Waging a Quiet War Against International “Data Cartels” – The Markup
Companies that got their start as academic publishers have spent the last several decades transforming themselves into hugely profitable data… read more
Our Tools Shape Ourselves – Aeon
According to Stiegler, technics – the making and use of technology, in the broadest sense – is what makes us… read more
Insurers Are Spying on Your Home From the Sky – Wall Street Journal
Across the U.S., insurance companies are using aerial images of homes as a tool to ditch properties seen as higher… read more
Towards Informatic Personhood: understanding contemporary subjects in a data-driven society (Lee, 2019)
This paper explores the relationships of subjects in the context of data and data technologies, and advances an original theoretical… read more