Privacy remains indispensable despite data colonialism’s corrosive effects

Evidence

Abandoning the concept of privacy here would be a fundamental mistake, since it still retains some reference to the minimal integrity of the self. Privacy, as leading US privacy campaigner Marc Rotenberg argues, remains “an extraordinarily powerful and comprehensive human-rights claim.” But what would effective protection of privacy look like within a broader challenge to data colonialism? — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 546

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with moves to abandon privacy for newer frames; positions data colonialism as retaining rather than rejecting older protections. — connects to: Apple participates in data colonialism despite its privacy-branded marketing — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 81; Authoritarian states deploy data colonialism as effectively as market democracies — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 154; Privacy protections are structurally incompatible with surveillance capitalism’s accumulation logic — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 601 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Authoritarian states deploy data colonialism as effectively as market democracies #contradicts (0.95) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 154
• Privacy protections are structurally incompatible with surveillance capitalism’s accumulation logic #qualifies (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 601
• Privacy controversies have not slowed the global expansion of surveillance-capitalist services #qualifies (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 469