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  1. "... companies like Uber typically want to grab and hold as much data as they can. When, in 1975, [Stafford] Beer argued that 'information is a national resource', he was ahead of his time in treating the question of ownership—just who gets to own the means of data production, not to mention the data?—as a political issue that cannot be reduced to its technological dimensions."

    #EvegenyMorozov, 2014

    newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10

    #data #TheNewOil #TechIsPolitical