Lamdan Sarah
Lamdan Sarah - Data Cartels The Companies That Control And Monopolize Our Information - Paperback
Lamdan Sarah - Data Cartels The Companies That Control And Monopolize Our Information - Paperback
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Description: In our digital world data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme using intimidation aggression and force to maintain influence and control. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the unregulated underworld of these "data cartels" demonstrating how the entities mining commodifying and selling our data and informational resources perpetuate social inequalities and threaten the democratic sharing of knowledge. Just a few companies dominate most of our critical informational resources. Often self - identifying as "data analytics" or "business solutions" operations they supply the digital lifeblood that flows through the circulatory system of the internet. With their control over data they can prevent the free flow of information masterfully exploiting outdated information and privacy laws and curating online information in a way that amplifies digital racism and targets marginalized communities. They can also distribute private information to predatory entities. Alarmingly everything they're doing is perfectly legal. In this book Lamdan contends that privatization and tech exceptionalism have prevented us from creating effective legal regulation. This in turn has allowed oversized information oligopolies to coalesce. In addition to specific legal and market - based solutions Lamdan calls for treating information like a public good and creating digital infrastructure that supports our democratic ideals.
Title: Data Cartels The Companies That Control And Monopolize Our Information
Author(s): Lamdan Sarah
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Barcode: 9781503633711
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 11/8/2022
Category: Intellectual Property Law
Description: In our digital world data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme using intimidation aggression and force to maintain influence and control. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the unregulated underworld of these "data cartels" demonstrating how the entities mining commodifying and selling our data and informational resources perpetuate social inequalities and threaten the democratic sharing of knowledge. Just a few companies dominate most of our critical informational resources. Often self - identifying as "data analytics" or "business solutions" operations they supply the digital lifeblood that flows through the circulatory system of the internet. With their control over data they can prevent the free flow of information masterfully exploiting outdated information and privacy laws and curating online information in a way that amplifies digital racism and targets marginalized communities. They can also distribute private information to predatory entities. Alarmingly everything they're doing is perfectly legal. In this book Lamdan contends that privatization and tech exceptionalism have prevented us from creating effective legal regulation. This in turn has allowed oversized information oligopolies to coalesce. In addition to specific legal and market - based solutions Lamdan calls for treating information like a public good and creating digital infrastructure that supports our democratic ideals.
Title: Data Cartels The Companies That Control And Monopolize Our Information
Author(s): Lamdan Sarah
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Barcode: 9781503633711
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 11/8/2022
Category: Intellectual Property Law
