Xu, Yishi and Barsha / Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism

First Half

The initial capture of the behavioural idea can be capturing the everyday online behaviour of people over the internet and mobile phones. If the company which is capturing these behaviours and sharing all the data as raw materials and giving them to companies. The companies will be using these data as free raw materials against our will. For example, if we cannot find the products that we are looking for on Amazon, these behaviours which are captured as raw materials will help us highlight the products we are searching for. They can also recommend other products or companies that are similar to our initial search. If they have the surveillance data, they will know what we did in the past and also what we are going to do in the future. Hence, the negative thing is that the surveillance of behavioural is controlling us to behave in a certain way but it is also improving behaviour by suggesting individualized products to us.

Second Half

Apophenia: If you are seeing an emoji, you will connecting its resemblance to a human face even though in reality it is not a human face. It is using our imagination to link it with subjective experiences.

Experience with Survellience Capitalism

We all have experience with surveillance capitalism. There was this time when Yixin was talking with her friend about her interest to learn the Korean language but a certain moment later a Korean learning app’s advertisement was posted on her Instagram.

What is Dirty Data?

Dirty data is useless and worthless data. It is people not entering true data about themselves so when these data are given to a third party, it is not worth it because they are not real, to begin with. Dirty data is where all of our refusals to fill out the constant onslaught of online forms accumulate.

What do you think about “Score”?

A score is a biased thing, it can be made and manipulated in many ways. It cannot calculate the probability that a refugee might be a terrorist for now but they can in the future. If we know the “score” of a person we might be objectively judging them solely based on their score. For example, judging a person based on the profile picture on tinder might be biased by how they are in real life. We are seeing a “score” that we ourselves set for that person.

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