Legitimate data use requires respect for the human subjects the data refers to

Evidence

How does this vision start? It begins by rejecting in principle the premises of the new social and economic order and, for example, insisting at every opportunity that corporations—indeed all actors—who use data can do so legitimately only if that broad usage is based on respect for the human subjects to whom that data refers and for the goals and awareness of those data subjects. For it is not just individuals’ right to control their data that is at stake if we don’t reject data colonialism’s premises, but also the freedom of social subjects to exist without being tracked, indeed, the right for everyone to live in a world that still holds the possibility of freedom for human subjects in general. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 599

Categorization

• DEFINE: Reframes the data-ethics baseline from individual consent/control to the broader freedom of subjects to exist without tracking — a definitional shift in what legitimate data practice means.
• XREF: connects to: Privacy as a term remains necessary but insufficient against data exploitation. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 1167

Broader Connections

• Privacy as a term remains necessary but insufficient against data exploitation. #corroborates (0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 1167