{"product_id":"data-borders-by-melissa-villa-nicholas-9780520386075","title":"Data Borders","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eData Borders\u003c\/em\u003e investigates entrenched and emerging borderland technology that ensnares all people in an intimate web of surveillance where data resides and defines citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDetailing the new trend of biologically mapping undocumented people through biotechnologies, Melissa Villa-Nicholas shows how surreptitious monitoring of Latinx immigrants is the focus of and driving force behind Silicon Valley's growing industry within defence technology manufacturing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVilla-Nicholas reveals a murky network that gathers data on marginalised communities for purposes of exploitation and control. This network implicates law enforcement, Border Patrol, and ICE, but also pulls in public workers and the general public, often without their knowledge or consent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEnriched by interviews of Latinx immigrants living in the borderlands who describe their daily use of technology and their caution around surveillance, this book argues that in order to move beyond a heavily surveilled state that dehumanises both immigrants and citizens, we must first understand how our data is being collected, aggregated, correlated, and weaponised with artificial intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe must then push for immigrant and citizen information privacy rights along the border and throughout the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460626366700,"sku":"9780520386075","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520386075-data-borders.jpg?v=1774950207","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/data-borders-by-melissa-villa-nicholas-9780520386075","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}