Our Data, Ourselves: Privacy, Propertization, and Gender

Bartow, Ann

doi:10.2139/ssrn.374101

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“…Despite the somewhat fanciful argument advanced by some commentators that the individual choices about the persona might constitute creative expression within the subject matter of copyright (Bartow 2000), personal facts are unlikely to constitute a compilation for purposes of copyright. Even very complex distinctive features of an individual, such as facial features, are unlikely to be considered creative expression for purposes of copyright.…”

Section: The Law Of Data Representationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Information ethics and the law of data representations

Burk

2008

Ethics Inf Technol

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Abstract. The theories of information ethics articulated by Luciano Floridi and his collaborators have clear implications for law. Information law, including the law of privacy and of intellectual property, is especially likely to benefit from a coherent and comprehensive theory of information ethics. This article illustrates how information ethics might apply to legal doctrine, by examining legal questions related to the ownership and control of the personal data representations, including photographs, game avatars, and consumer profiles, that have become ubiquitous with the proliferation of information and communication technologies. Recent controversy over the control of player performance statistics in ''fantasy'' sports leagues provides a limiting case for the analysis. Such data representations will in many instances constitute the kind of personal data that information ethics asserts constitutes an information entity. Legal doctrine in some instances proves sympathetic to such an assertion, but remains largely inchoate as to which data might constitute a given information entity in a given instance. Neither is information ethics, in its current state of development, entirely helpful in answering this critical question. While information ethics holds some promise to bring coherence to this area of the law, further work articulating a richer theory of information ethics will be necessary before it can do so.

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Section: The Law Of Data Representationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Information ethics and the law of data representations

Burk

2008

Ethics Inf Technol

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“…One implication related to data dispossession is "technological redlining"-the power of digital decisions made by algorithms to reinforce oppressive social relationships and enact new modes of racial profiling (Noble, 2018). Tracing this concept back, "digital redlining" first emerged in the late 90s as speculation that data collected on us by way of the (then) future Internet may be used to both sell us things or deny us things, from jobs to housing (Bartow, 2000). Sure enough, this speculation on what was then termed "cyber-indicia" -digital information on a person's race, gender, or incomebecame a reality, a decision-making metric for those who could access this data.…”

Section: Racialized Dispossession and The Digitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital food apartheid: The uneven food geographies of Seattle in the era of Amazon

Vaughan-Wynn,

Jung

2024

Environment and Planning F

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This article puts forward the concept of “digital food apartheid” to articulate differentiation in terms of one’s agency concerning their food that is mediated by, reified through, or materialized from data or digital infrastructure given the omnipresence of racial capitalism. We examine the digitization of public food assistance in the United States in conversation with Black digital geographies, food geographies, and critical GIS, paying particular attention to the US Department of Agriculture’s COVID-19-era Online Grocery Purchase Program (OPP), which gives Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants access to online grocery shopping and delivery. We call into question the conditions of possibility that gave rise to this program through a historicization of US food assistance. Empirically, we map the “Amazon Fresh” grocery delivery area around Seattle overlaid with SNAP participants and census tracts designated as “low income and low food access” by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to visualize the program’s current operationalization. Our critical GIS approach allows us to analyze our empirics in relation to the rhetorical and political moves of the state to demonstrate how digital food apartheid determines which foods are marketed to, available to, and accessible to whom.

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“…It can be argued that the Internet has merely introduced us to a new vehicle for discrimination (Bartow, 2000; Maury and Kleiner, 2002). The presence of e‐lining and other electronic abuses allows for the creation of “virtual gated communities” (Netanel, 2000).…”

Section: Conclusion: E‐magining Ethics Among Netizensmentioning

confidence: 99%