Deep dark data how information became personal Alison Cool

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cool, Alison, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Data privacy--Social aspects--Sweden.

Data privacy.

Information technology--Moral and ethical aspects--Sweden.

Information technology.

Personal information management--Social aspects--Sweden.

Personal information management.

Information technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Sweden.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oakland University of California Press 2026

Summary:

Why does the problem of data privacy remain so intractable? Deep Dark Data explores how this contemporary problem begins with the ways we define and use personal data. Instead of debating how best to protect personal data, Alison Cool argues that we would be better off asking how data became personal in the first place. Drawing on years of ethnographic research in Sweden, the most datafied country in the world, Cool reveals that what we call personal data encapsulates a number of very different relations between data and persons, none of which are inherent in the data itself. This surprising and highly original book untangles these relations and traces their troubled histories, ultimately inviting us to understand privacy as a gendered and racialized politics of moral exclusion

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780520425620

0520425626

OCLC:

1579849077

Publisher Number:

CIPO000352689

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license