Data collection itself, not just its uses, harms the self’s integrity

Evidence

The deepest problem is the violence that the very fact of data collection through surveillance does to the minimal integrity of the self. We derive this latter notion from the concept of autonomy. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 473

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘minimal integrity of the self’ echoes liberal autonomy traditions and rivals the attention/surveillance frames that locate harm in manipulation rather than in self-constitution. — connects to: Data appropriation threatens the minimal space of the self — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 75; Surveillance harms by invading the self’s space on another’s behalf. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 471; The mere possibility of harmful data use, not actual harm, curtails autonomy — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 498 (+3 more)
• SEED: Angle: how surveillance-as-self-violation reframes the ‘data privacy’ debate — the harm precedes any discriminatory use.

Broader Connections

• The mere possibility of harmful data use, not actual harm, curtails autonomy #expands (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 498
• Personal property is constitutive of the self, so alienating it harms the person #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 307
• Corporations invoke a self-claimed right to extract data from human bodies #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 783