Data collection is consented to out of pressing need for essential services.

Evidence

Yet, in agreeing to or accepting data collection, people may have a pressing need to secure a service of some sort (just as a labor contract is held together by the worker’s need to sell her labor power for money so she can buy the necessities of life). Through data relations, for example, we access connection (platforms where everyone else we know is a user) and services that are basic to daily life, such as insurance. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 137

Categorization

• XREF: The labor-power analogy maps data extraction onto Marxist exploitation, echoing the book’s data-colonialism as class analysis. — connects to: Voluntary data extraction is seductive before it is coercive. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1111

Broader Connections

• Voluntary data extraction is seductive before it is coercive. #expands (0.82) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1111