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Towards data justice? The ambiguity of anti-surveillance resistance in political activism

Lina Dencik, Arne Hintz, Joe Cable Orcid Logo

Big Data & Society, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Start page: 205395171667967

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The Snowden leaks, first published in June 2013, provided unprecedented insights into the operations of state-corporate surveillance, highlighting the extent to which everyday communication is integrated into an extensive regime of control that relies on the ‘datafication’ of social life. Whilst suc...

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