Data Velance

Speaker 1
That's almost scarier, right? It's not big brother, it's big incoet web of algorithms, data and maybe occasionally people who are doing the surveilling.
Speaker 2
No, that's right. It's a goo instead of like a
Speaker 1
well. And i think, i think if that's e answra the goo instead of a who is the answer to, who is surveiling usike, it's not a ho, it's a goo. Just to make that point extra, extra clear, i wonder if we can also say this on the other side of the coin, in answer to the question, who is being surveiled? Right? If we think back to that google ad profile, that wasn't you or me. It was a collection a right? My google ad profile was not a ho. It
Speaker 2
was agoof of data points, presumably rit this collassion. And this is what roger clark calls data velence, which i really like as a concept, because much surveillance nowadays is about surveiling, compiling and analyzing data, rather than tracking or even targeting individual bodies, right, like our physical, organic bodies. And the prevalence of this kind of data velance ends up up ending some of our popular conceptions about surveillance. Because we're no longer dealing with something that is disciplining us from without. We're talking about a force that we sometimes consent to freely. And that, as we said, is also unidentifiable, anonymous and fluid and goy iges. That's the metaphor that we're going for, a data velance as as dispersed delose
Speaker 1
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