This paper is part of Transnational materialities , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by José van Dijck and Bernhard Rieder. Introduction Questions about how data is generated, collected and used have taken hold of public imagination in recent years, not least in relation to government. While the collection of data about
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Datafication (the quantification of social life) is a colonial move which perpetuates a legacy of appropriation. But how to regulate this?