Platform consent silently bundles in ownership claims to users’ life data.
Evidence
You have, wittingly or unwittingly, entered the spiral of data relations. But those relations may or may not be based on consent. Implied consent, even if unenthusiastic, is common to many platform situations. Often rolled into this consent is acknowledgment of the platform owners’ claim to thereby own the data, even though this is rarely made explicit; if it was, it would likely be contested more often. Incorporated also is consent to other, more subtle conditions that are required to convert the flow of a person’s life into material for valuable data extraction in combination with the parallel flows of data about others’ lives. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 136
Categorization
- XREF: Consent-as-bundle parallels Milgrom’s forfeitable-bond idea and legal realism on adhesion contracts; ties data colonialism to property/contract theory. — connects to: Platform data sharing ruined personal moments without consent — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 149; Users have paid for platform transparency with their own data — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms,…, 609; A single app accessed profiles of tens of millions without consent — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 872
Broader Connections
- Platform data sharing ruined personal moments without consent
#expands(0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 149 - A single app accessed profiles of tens of millions without consent
#exemplifies(0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 872 - Users have paid for platform transparency with their own data
#qualifies(0.75) — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet, 609