//The excessive focus on the economic value and use of data reinforces the idea that data is a commodity. It doesn’t question the need for certain kinds of data or the mandate to resist datafication of our personal and private lives. It presumes that all data can be generated and harvested, and valued only as an economic value. This betrays the fact that data is embodied. It affects and is anchored in our bodily practices, and that we need better understanding of what can and cannot be translated as data, setting limits on what can be translated into data.
…The aspirations of the Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023 will be met only if the operational realities question and critique the three principles which are often used to weaponise data against those who are the most vulnerable and precarious.//
Full article: https://shorturl.at/gijH2 (The Indian Express)
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