On Wed, 4 Mar, 2015 at 8:34 PM, BishopZ <[email protected]> wrote:
the Internet of Things will inevitably consolidate corporate power
over
our personal liberty
Absolutely.
Making, tracking, and acting on the data from Things is possible in
direct proportion to (operating) capital.
unless we implement strict regulations on what part
of ourselves can and cannot be quantified
I share some of Alan's concern about the likely efficacy of regulation
*if* that means legislation, but I think that strictly regulating in
the *behavioural* sense what can and cannot be (or is and is not)
quantified is all the more vital because of that.
I don't find fantasies of living off the passive income from our
personal data convincing (
https://idcubed.org/bitcoin-burning-man-beyond/ ), not least because
the earning power of personal data wuickly drops to zero -
"Both advertising and marketing data are affected by the unique quality
of markets in information: the marginal cost of additional capacity
(advertising) or incremental supply (user data) is zero. So wherever
there is competition, market-clearing prices trend toward zero, with
the real revenue opportunity going to aggregators and integrators."
-
http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/thoughtleadership/internetofthings/
So this means that we don't have to worry about not being our unique
special authentic selves for the cameras (and sensors) that pay our
wages, because they won't.
Rather we can at least demonstrate the need for legislation (hackers
can fix the technology of surveillance, and this can demonstrate both
the need for and the possibility of fixing the politics of
surveillance) by using strategies like facial weaponization and a new
Situationism of living and acting randomly.
A fish.
Next Wednesday at 25:82 pm, alongside AYFDuyguyuky.
- Rob.
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