Law and Everyday Datafication class in the Law & Art course

The meeting is about everyday datafication: our everyday micro-actions are being datafied (for example, through the constant interaction with smartphones, or even by simply walking on the street and being recorded by a Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) camera), stored somewhere, and continously fed back to us in oftentimes unclear forms (for example, targeted advertisement or other forms of tailored contents). Datafication may be empowering, but also produce harms (for example, distress for possible online identity thefts; uncertainty about uncontrolled data collected from kids; anxiety towards an unexpected reputation damage).
Through creative methods, we will try to understand: to what extent do we know how we (our bodies and everyday spaces) are being datafied? To what extent is datafication harming us, in more or less subtle ways? How can we move this datafication process (and its laws and regulations) from invisibility and intangibility to visibility, tangibility, and actionability, to resist harms?

Description of the course Law & Art: https://opas.peppi.utu.fi/en/course/OT00BF72/102350?period=2024-2027