Surveillance harms by invading the self’s space on another’s behalf.

Evidence

The reason both traditional surveillance and datafied tracking conflict with notions of freedom derives from something common to both: their invasion of the basic space of the self on behalf of an external power. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 471

Categorization

• XREF: This unified theory of self-space invasion runs parallel to the attention/surveillance schools’ account of platform power over user agency. — connects to: External surveillance becomes internalized as self-imposed bodily discipline — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 512; Surveillance erodes interpersonal trust by removing the right to act without it — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 503; Compliance with surveillance regimes can threaten the minimal integrity of selfhood — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 501 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• The self comprises an open space of possibility invaded by monitoring #expands (0.95) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 474
• Continuous surveillance violates the bounded self-space whose absence destroys selfhood #expands (0.92) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 508
• External surveillance becomes internalized as self-imposed bodily discipline #expands (0.90) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 512
• Compliance with surveillance regimes can threaten the minimal integrity of selfhood #expands (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 501
• Automated surveillance threatens the open-ended self-transformative capacity that defines selfhood #expands (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 489
• Unpredictable surveillance produces self-surveillance and disempowerment in its targets #expands (0.80) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 482
• State surveillance can self-censor personal correspondence among citizens #exemplifies (0.80) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 586
• Surveillance capitalism’s design aim is the extinction of autonomous selfhood #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1512
• Data collection itself, not just its uses, harms the self’s integrity #expands (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 473
• Surveillance controls populations chiefly through internalized self-policing #corroborates (0.78) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 44
• Surveillance capitalism threatens the inward capacities that sustain social bonds #expands (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1566
• Mutual surveillance becomes the habitat within which social conformity is engineered #expands (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1365
• Surveillance erodes interpersonal trust by removing the right to act without it #complicates (0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 503