Bodily-data extraction without consent has deep historical precedent.

Evidence

Illuminates Equity/IP: Skloot’s account of the HeLa cell line is the canonical cross-pollination text for thinking about consent, ownership, and data extraction in biomedicine. Placed beside debates on training data, Lacks’s story illuminates the longue durée of bodily-data extraction without consent. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 3378

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects directly to the training-data consent debates; HeLa is the canonical biographical case for extracting value from bodies without consent. — connects to: Platform data extraction continues historical colonialism’s logic of appropriation — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 398; Historical actors act under circumstances transmitted from the past, not freely chosen; Data relations can operate through brute necessity with zero consent. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 138 (+1 more)

Broader Connections