Corporations invoke a self-claimed right to extract data from human bodies
Evidence
There are many new territories of body rendition: organs, blood, eyes, brain waves, faces, gait, posture. Each of these expresses the same patterns and purpose that we have seen here. The surveillance capitalists relentlessly fight any attempts to constrain rendition. The ferocity with which they claim their “right to rendition” out of thin air is ample evidence of its foundational importance in the pursuit of surveillance revenues. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 783
Categorization
- SEED: The phrase ‘right to rendition out of thin air’ is a powerful framing for an essay on how tech firms legally invent rights to bodily data where none existed.
- XREF: connects to: US courts interpret the First Amendment to protect data gathering as corporate free speech. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 550; Data collection itself, not just its uses, harms the self’s integrity — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 473; Corporations will use personal data against individual interests unless checked — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 497 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Data extraction extends capitalism’s exploitation to all human life, echoing colonial raw-material logic
#expands(0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 42 - Surveillance capitalists self-authorize the right to modify user behavior for profit
#expands(0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 933 - Bodily-data extraction without consent has deep historical precedent.
#qualifies(0.75) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 3378 - Human beings have an inherent property right in their own bodies
#complicates(0.72) — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1265