Surveillance capitalism

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Surveillance

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Surveillance is a mode of power based on the detailed and totalized observation of behavior. It is the prevailing form of power developed and deployed in modernity

Panopticon

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The panopticon is a structure of power-knowledge, used by Michel Foucault to describe a system in which totalized surveillance can be organized.

Surveillance capitalism

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Surveillance capitalism is an economic order and logic that claims human experience and behavior as free raw material for commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales.

Anti-Chinese tech discourse

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Chinese tech has become a prominent topic in political discourse. From TikTok to Huawei, Chinese tech is increasingly framed in terms of 'surveillance', 'national security threats' and economic warfare. Learn more about them in our brand new file!

Privacy, Periods Risks and a Digital Dystopia in a post-fall Roe v. Wade US

Paper

Prajakta Athlekar

12/02/2024

12 minutes to read

This paper examines the potential privacy risks associated with data collection and sharing by period tracking apps in a post-fall Roe v. Wade world.

From one 1984 to the next: on Apple’s "1984" and the political fault lines it represents

Article

Thomas Decreus

26/01/2024

11 minutes to read

Even a first, superficial interpretation makes it clear that Apple's "1984" commercial has an outspoken political character. In this article, Thomas Decreus uses the work of Gilles Deleuze and others to gain a more profound understanding of one of the most famous technology commercials that ever aired on television.

“Hey Google, is buying your smart home speaker actually that smart?”

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Isobel Huisman

08/01/2024

12 minutes to read

Smart home devices have made our lives easier, but at what cost? This paper aims to explore what privacy issues voice interactions with the Google Nest speaker raise for its users and why we choose to continue to use these speakers.

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The Transcontinental: Benign sousveillance across Europe's other spaces

Column

Tom Van Hout

24/08/2023

10 minutes to read

Ultracycling throws into relief the prosaics of machine vision in heterotopian spaces of hedonism and minimalism. I illustrate what it's like to navigate surveillance technology in an ultracycling race across Europe.

MeWe: Mark Weinstein’s technological utopia

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Nikki Bergmans

12/06/2023

15 minutes to read

This article unravels how Mark Weinstein questions the surveillance capitalist hegemony of Silicon Valley and discursively constructs a technological utopia by translating his beliefs into social media platform MeWe.

Surveillance & Geopolitics: Why the European Union Banned TikTok for Government Officials

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Iva Konstantinova

01/11/2023

13 minutes to read

This article analyzes the privacy policy of TikTok in comparison to that of Meta’s Instagram and Facebook because of their greater popularity and similarity in video streaming methods on the premise of the surveillance-industrial complex.

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DeviantArt and AI: The showdown between manual playbour and automated playbour

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Pak Wing Ng

27/11/2023

15 minutes to read

By looking at DeviantArt and its no-AI alternative Side 7, the article explores an issue of the security of users' artwork with the rise of AI art generators, as well as the way the platforms deal with artwork protection.