Datafication (the quantification of social life) is a colonial move which perpetuates a legacy of appropriation. But how to regulate this?
News and Research articles on Acxiom
Given the weakness of consent-dependent agreements in relation to profiling and prediction markets, consumer protection needs improvement.
Agribusinesses are buying into big data for its predictive powers, bypassing farmers and aggregating previously proprietary farming data. Given this power asymmetry, what are the ethics of the use of big data in big agriculture?