POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Turnitin, Personal Information Protection And Electronic Documents Act, Peer Pressure
Document Summary
We are observing the few and monitoring them)). There is such thing called surveillance assemblage we are creating a society that surveillance and monitoring has become the norm. Communication technology can greatly empower the big companies and government but it also empowers us. Ownership: the commodi cation for data is being questioned. Google is a resource to get data but at the same time, google is commodifying the data you are commemorating. Google can mine data out of everything you do because this is what advertisers want. A commodity is a resource turned into something with exchanged value. For google, your data is their commodity because they know advertisers wants to know what your wants are and this is why you see ads after you search something. It raises questions of privacy (the right to be left alone and to be free from state intrusions).
