Data colonialism is backed by both the US and China as a global order

Evidence

Untouched also would be the basic fact stressed throughout this book that capitalism’s data-driven order is being built globally, not just in the West. It is an order that has behind it the full force of the world’s two most powerful states (the United States and China), who are competing for leadership of the social quantification sector and its AI hinterland. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 573

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the reader’s attention/surveillance frame, which is largely Western-centric, by noting the US-China duopoly over the data order. — connects to: Geopolitical privacy regime battles will shape data colonialism’s global trajectory. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 557; Data colonialism is jointly driven by corporate and state power — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 162; Authoritarian states deploy data colonialism as effectively as market democracies — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 154 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Authoritarian states deploy data colonialism as effectively as market democracies #expands (0.82) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 154
• Data colonialism is jointly driven by corporate and state power #expands (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 162