Companies are making money from our personal data – but at what cost?

Data appropriation is a form of exploitation because companies use data to create value without providing people with comparable compensation

It is the strangely conspiratorial truth of the surveillance society we inhabit that there are unknown entities gathering our data for unknown purposes.

Companies and governments dip into the data streams of our lives in increasingly innovative ways, tracking what we do, who we know and where we go. The methods and purposes of data collection keep expanding, with seemingly no end or limit in sight.