Morlock Elloi on Wed, 29 Nov 2017 21:34:02 +0100 (CET)


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Re: <nettime> Lessons from Amazon's Italian hub strike

Perhaps this will start to erode "I don't have anything to hide" ideology imposed on the hapless crowd to facilitate amputation of privacy.
It's funny, in a way, that attempts, based on potential personal harms, to achieve awareness of individuals about the toxicity of organizations' knowledge about them failed, while the good old class models may work. 


On 11/29/17, 04:58, nettime's avid reader wrote:

Which brings us to the main point. Amazon strategy is predicated on data
and work. Even better: it is predicated on data-as-work, because it
extracts value from the data stored in its humongous cloud and hosting
services, and because it uses people-as-a-service (according to Jeff
Bezos’s early characterization of Amazon Mechanical Turk) to train,
enrich, refine data.


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