Rob Kitchin
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781529215144
- eISBN:
- 9781529215168
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529215144.003.0026
- Subject:
- Sociology, Science, Technology and Environment
This chapter addresses the life of COVID-19 data, how it has been used to reshape our daily lives by directing intervention measures, and how new data-driven technologies have been deployed to try ...
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This chapter addresses the life of COVID-19 data, how it has been used to reshape our daily lives by directing intervention measures, and how new data-driven technologies have been deployed to try and help tackle the spread of the coronavirus. Specifically, it examines infection and death rates and the use of surveillance technologies designed to trace contacts, monitor movement, and regulate people's behaviour. The use of these technologies raised questions and active debate concerning the data life cycle and their effects on civil liberties and governmentality. Indeed, most of the critical analysis of contact tracing apps focused on its potential infringement of civil liberties, particularly privacy, since they require fine-grained knowledge about social networks and health status and, for some, location. The concern was that intimate details about a person's life would be shared with the state without sufficient data protection measures that would foreclose data re/misuse and ensure that data would be deleted after 14 days (at which point it becomes redundant) or stored indefinitely.Less
This chapter addresses the life of COVID-19 data, how it has been used to reshape our daily lives by directing intervention measures, and how new data-driven technologies have been deployed to try and help tackle the spread of the coronavirus. Specifically, it examines infection and death rates and the use of surveillance technologies designed to trace contacts, monitor movement, and regulate people's behaviour. The use of these technologies raised questions and active debate concerning the data life cycle and their effects on civil liberties and governmentality. Indeed, most of the critical analysis of contact tracing apps focused on its potential infringement of civil liberties, particularly privacy, since they require fine-grained knowledge about social networks and health status and, for some, location. The concern was that intimate details about a person's life would be shared with the state without sufficient data protection measures that would foreclose data re/misuse and ensure that data would be deleted after 14 days (at which point it becomes redundant) or stored indefinitely.
Rob Kitchin
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781529215144
- eISBN:
- 9781529215168
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529215144.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Science, Technology and Environment
This chapter focuses on the role of finance and the politics of collaboration, charting the development of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). DRI have been beset with institutional politics ...
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This chapter focuses on the role of finance and the politics of collaboration, charting the development of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). DRI have been beset with institutional politics concerning its framing, development, and operation. The future funding issue was just the latest example in a long list of fraught exchanges that could be traced back to its original conception and funding mechanism. The DRI was born out of a funding opportunity, but seemed destined to die due to a funding failure. Without a political solution, the data life cycle would turn full circle much more quickly than initially anticipated. Unless there is a means of covering the costs for labour, equipment and other essential inputs, data are not generated or stored, and thus cannot be used or shared. Even in open data projects, the data might be free to use but they were not free to create, or to process and host.Less
This chapter focuses on the role of finance and the politics of collaboration, charting the development of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). DRI have been beset with institutional politics concerning its framing, development, and operation. The future funding issue was just the latest example in a long list of fraught exchanges that could be traced back to its original conception and funding mechanism. The DRI was born out of a funding opportunity, but seemed destined to die due to a funding failure. Without a political solution, the data life cycle would turn full circle much more quickly than initially anticipated. Unless there is a means of covering the costs for labour, equipment and other essential inputs, data are not generated or stored, and thus cannot be used or shared. Even in open data projects, the data might be free to use but they were not free to create, or to process and host.
