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.

Personal information management--Social aspects--Sweden.

Personal information management.

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

Information technology.

Information technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Sweden.

Physical Description:

xiii, 252 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : 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 how 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Nothing is secret

The story of the great computer

Privacy as a human right

A tale of two conferences

What is data?

Nobody knows what the law says

Conclusion : life as data management.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Cool, Alison, 1982- Deep dark data

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780520425590

0520425596

9780520425613

0520425618

OCLC:

1545055951

Publisher Number:

90104456895

CIPO000352688