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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jan 28

      Today is apparently #DataPrivacyDay, so here goes: There is no such thing as “data privacy”, there is privacy. Data doesn’t have rights, people have a human right to privacy. Your data belongs to you & is a part of you. Data about people is people. See https://cyborgrights.eu 

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    2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jan 28

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      Same goes for “digital rights”. There are no digital rights, only human rights in the digital age. Speaking of “digital rights” and “data privacy” implies that those are separate to our human rights and to our privacy, paving the way for a different set of (lesser) protections.https://twitter.com/aral/status/957532510514184193 …

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      Aral Balkan @aral
      Today is apparently #DataPrivacyDay, so here goes: There is no such thing as “data privacy”, there is privacy. Data doesn’t have rights, people have a human right to privacy. Your data belongs to you & is a part of you. Data about people is people. See https://cyborgrights.eu 
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    3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jan 28

      To separate a person from their data is to strip the latter of its human rights, making it into an object to be commodified. Any rights thereupon conferred on the object will thus be lesser than those protecting the subject.

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    4. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jan 28

      By treating people and their data as separate constructs – one a subject, the other an object – what you end up doing is commodifying people by slicing them into their constituent bits and bytes; ready to be sold off to the highest bidder.

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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jan 28

      And that, in a nutshell, is the business model of Silicon Valley: to digitise people and to own those digital copies. #SurveillanceCapitalism

      1:00 AM - 28 Jan 2018
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        2. Bob Mottram‏ @motters Jan 28
          Replying to @aral

          It's a new type of commodification of the self. Not the physical self but the psychological self.

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        3. Bob Mottram‏ @motters Jan 28
          Replying to @motters @aral

          Psychological commodification makes social systems easier to instrumentalize

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        4. Bob Mottram‏ @motters Jan 28
          Replying to @motters @aral

          The instrumentalized social system is "flexible" in the capitalistic sense. It permits modular orchestration of capital flow

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        5. Bob Mottram‏ @motters Jan 28
          Replying to @motters @aral

          When psychology is opaque to capital this eliminates the competitive margin

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        1. Elijah Waxwing‏ @elijahwaxwing Jan 28
          Replying to @aral

          Yes, but a rights discourse re our data is a dead end bc it leads to calls for us to "control" our own data, to voluntarily enter into personal data markets. The only thing worse than being commodified is self-commodification

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        1. haroldcarr‏ @haroldcarr Jan 29
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          see Orphan Black - the clones do not own themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Black …

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        1. Elizabeth leveto‏ @Lampshire9876 Feb 2
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          Against this!!!!

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        1. ultraDesign‏ @ultradesign_be Jan 30
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          That actually reads like a script of Black Mirror.

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        1. aayeff‏ @aayeff1 Jan 28
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          Well said!

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        1. Lorraine Harmer‏ @Loreign83 Jan 28
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          Shockingly different to my understanding of the hippy philosophy of the guys who started the ball rolling? #BillGates

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