Transgressive Tech The Privatization of the Public Interest

List of Abbreviations

1. What is a ‘sector transgression’, and why should we care?
Linnet Taylor, Aaron Martin, Siddharth Peter de Souza, Joan Lopez-Solano, Ouejdane Sabbah, and Franklyn Ohai.

2. Transgression through a Sector — On COVID-19, power and technology
Vidushi Marda

3. The Crutch of Big Tech: Thinking critically about tech companies' sphere transitions in Malaysia and their implications for national policy
Anisha Nadkarni

4. A technology response to a public health emergency
Grace Mutung’u

5. COVID-19, Health Tech and Sphere Transgression in Ethiopia
Kinfe Yilma

6. Technology-led border management in Greece: When the EU funds private vendors, Centaurs and Titans turn from myth to reality
Eleftherios Chelioudakis

7. Brazil and the case of Incognia
Bruno Bioni , Gabriela Vergili , Mariana Rielli , Pedro Saliba

8. The app in the middle: Displacement of the Colombian public health surveillance system by COVID apps
Joan López-Solano , Juliana Valdés , Juan Diego Castañeda

9. A Digital Push in Agriculture: Multiple locations, shared patterns and the dynamics of displacement
Franklyn Ohai  and Siddharth Peter de Souza

10. One Gate Leads to Many Doors, a Case Study of MyGate in India
Anushka Mittal

11. Super-apps and the Encroachment of Tech Companies in Indonesia
Paska Darmawan

12. Big Tech and Big Money: Examining Big Tech’s entry into India’s payment sector
Aman Nair

13. A system error has occurred: Reclaiming the public governance of technology
Linnet Taylor

Index

Biography

Linnet Taylor is Professor of International Data Governance at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), the Netherlands. Her research focuses on digital data, representation, and democracy, with particular attention to transnational governance issues.

Aaron Martin is Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Data Science at the University of Virginia, USA. A social scientist specialising in technology policy and data governance, he studies how regulation can facilitate just, inclusive, and secure digital societies.

Siddharth Peter de Souza is Assistant Professor in AI and Society at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, UK. His research looks at developments in law and technology from a legal pluralist, data justice, and decolonial perspective. He is the founder of Justice Adda, a law and design social venture which seeks to build legal literacy and awareness in India.

Joan López Solano is a PhD researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), the Netherlands. His research analyses the impacts of data-intensive systems on the fundamental rights of vulnerable communities and includes data systems used for social security, migration management, and national identification systems.

Ouejdane Sabbah is a PhD researcher in Political and Economic Geography at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her doctoral research focuses on African digital and connectivity infrastructures, specifically examining the perceptions of state and non-state stakeholders in West Africa regarding big tech–led subsea internet cables.

Franklyn Ohai is an associate researcher with the Global Data Justice project at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He has also conducted research at KU Leuven’s Centre for IT and IP Law, focusing on the legal, ethical, and regulatory aspects of digital, data-driven, and connected technologies.