Corporations will use personal data against individual interests unless checked

Evidence

But equally important is corporate power. There is no reason to assume that a corporation, unless specifically checked from doing so, won’t use the personal data it collects or buys in its own interests and against an individual’s interests. Many forms of personal data are the source of validly competing interests: when individuals insure against risks to themselves, the interests of insurers and insured are often, quite legitimately, opposed. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 497

Categorization

• SEED: Could be the seed for an essay comparing surveillance-state harms with market-based extraction harms — the data-colonialism frame’s core divergence from state-centric surveillance critique.
• XREF: connects to: Corporations invoke a self-claimed right to extract data from human bodies — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 783; Repeated corporate privacy violations indicate an intentional design rather than oversight — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 153; Privacy law’s negative liberty tradition conflicts with capitalism’s data extraction drive. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 549 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Repeated corporate privacy violations indicate an intentional design rather than oversight #exemplifies (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 153
• Surveillance capitalists self-authorize the right to modify user behavior for profit #corroborates (0.82) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 933
• Corporations invoke a self-claimed right to extract data from human bodies #corroborates (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 783
• Digital identity is privately owned by corporations, not by the person it identifies #corroborates (0.80) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 299
• Privacy law’s negative liberty tradition conflicts with capitalism’s data extraction drive. #expands (0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 549
• Surveillance capitalism constitutes a coup against the people disguised as personalization #corroborates (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1627
• Citizens resist surveillance by hiding from both the state and corporate data extractors #corroborates (0.70) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1560