Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future

The first book to draw a direct line between the datafication and prediction techniques of past eugenicists and today's often violent and extractive "big data" regimes.

Predatory Data illuminates the throughline between the nineteenth century's anti—immigration and eugenics movements and our sprawling systems of techno—surveillance and algorithmic discrimination. With this book, Anita Say Chan offers a historical, globally multisited analysis of the relations of dispossession, misrecognitio...