I had this conversation almost one year ago. Sadly things are just worse now.
#DataGrab a great book by @couldrynick and Ulises Mejias , that should should definitely read. #DataColonialism #BigTech
🔗 https://zencastr.com/z/At7zGFhV
Ep. 27: Data Grab - The New Colonialism of Big Tech by @Diversify University
In this episode, Catarina Carvalho talks to Professors Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry about their book Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455862/data-grab-by-couldry-ulises-a-mejias-and-nick/9780753560204].
EPISODE NOTES:
* Aníbal Quijano (Foundational Essays on the Coloniality of Power [https://www.dukeupress.edu/anibal-quijano])
* Primitive Accumulation of capital
* Tierra Común [https://www.tierracomun.net]
Professor Ulises A. Mejias is a critical media theorist, recipient of the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, and a Fulbright Specialist from 2021 to 2025.
Professor Nick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture at the London School of Economics and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.
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SaaS - Spying as a Service
#Meta acquires #Limitless, which makes a wearable “pendant” that clips to clothing or a lanyard. The device records conversations, and can generate transcripts and produce searchable summaries through a companion app.
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-acquires-ai-wearables-startup-limitless-2025-12-05/
#AI #datacolonialism #datagrab
"This process of extracting and exploiting our data, generated by everyday interactions with services mostly provided by US #bigtech companies , has been called #datacolonialism. In #Brazil, the numbers are significant: approximately 134 million active #Instagram users, 160 million on #WhatsApp , and 140 million daily messages sent via #ChatGPT—we are the 3rd country that uses this tool the most in the world in 2025, according to OpenAI data."
https://baixacultura.org/2025/11/07/colonialismo-digital-a-nova-fronteira-da-dependencia-latino-americana/
Colonialismo digital: a nova fronteira da dependência latino-americana
Publicamos, eu e Joana Varon (Coding Rights) um artigo breve no Le Monde Diplomatique sobre os desafios do colonialismo digital na América Latina. É um texto mais[...]
Affidavit And Public Legal Representation In Opposition To The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) Of Electoral Rolls, 2025
https://onceinabluemoon2021.in/2025/10/31/affidavit-and-public-legal-representation-in-opposition-to-the-special-intensive-revision-sir-of-electoral-rolls-2025/
#SIR2025, #ElectoralRevision, #VoterRollManipulation, #DeletedVoters, #UniversalFranchise, #ConstitutionBetrayed #CitizenshipCrisis #RightToExist #DataColonialism #AlgorithmicControl, #PeopleBeforePaper, #DigitalDisenfranchisement, #VoteAgainstFascism,, #Bharatiya_Janata_Party. #NDA, #VoteChori. #NOTA, #Partless_Democracy,
If you are in the UK and fancy a day or two in the countryside, I will be speaking on
#datacolonialism at the ALSO festival at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, on Saturday July 12 morning. Details here:
https://www.also-festival.com/entities/also-festival/content/also-ideas
ALSO | Talks
ALSO sprung from the loins of Salon London, one of the first organisations on the planet that put ideas from authors, academics, and experts together with audiences in stylish evening Salons and was described by GQ as ‘one of the top things to do in the world’. It also means we have over two decades’ experience of taking ideas and letting them run wild so in 2014, having programmed extensively for all the most creative festivals in the UK (putting the clever content in to Latitude, Wilderness, Standon Calling, Soho House, Festival No 6, Blue Dot and Lost Village) we knew exactly how to curate the UK’s first music and ideas festival.
Catarina 
@envplane
Stefanie Wuschitz
Jan Walraven ⁂
Ecologia Digital
anekanta
onoptikon