Technical resistance to surveillance can weaponize noise and obfuscation
Evidence
Obfuscation thus becomes here a defense strategy against surveillance itself (Brunton and Nissenbaum 2016). Or consider the industrial action of UberEats (Uber’s food-delivery service) workers, who redeployed the company’s secret algorithm (the same algorithm obscuring their own exploitation) and placed strategic orders through the app as a means of assembling coworkers to their picket lines (Bridle 2018). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 187
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Counterterrorism surveillance technology crosses the domestic-foreign divide; Resistance to surveillance capitalism requires deliberately creating friction against its smooth flows — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1657; Citizens resist surveillance by hiding from both the state and corporate data extractors — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1560 (+2 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Counterterrorism surveillance technology crosses the domestic-foreign divide; Resistance to surveillance capitalism requires deliberately creating friction against its smooth flows — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1657; Citizens resist surveillance by hiding from both the state and corporate data extractors — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1560 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Surveillance firms adapt tactics to whatever resistance incursions meet
#complicates(0.74) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 438