Afterlives of Data: Life and Debt Under Capitalist Surveillance Ebeling Mary F. E.
What our health data tells American capitalism about our value--and how it controls our lives.Afterlives of Data follows the curious and multiple lives that our data live once they escape us. Mary F.…
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What our health data tells American capitalism about our value--and how it controls our lives.Afterlives of Data follows the curious and multiple lives that our data live once they escape us. Mary F. E. Ebeling's ethnographic investigation shows how information about our health and the debt we carry become biopolitical assets owned by healthcare providers, insurers, commercial data brokers, credit reporting companies, and platforms. By delving into the oceans of data built from everyday medical and debt traumas, Ebeling reveals how data about our lives come to control our bodies and our life chances and to wholly define us.Investigations into secretive data collection and breaches of privacy by the likes of Cambridge Analytica have piqued concerns among many Americans about exactly what is being done with their data. From credit bureaus and consumer
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