field the existence and the inner workings of a very secretive classified stell satellite that the american military had been using to spite. busy successfully. ready on russia, china ran and other u. s. adversaries. she revealed that to the cubans, it was a multi $1000000000.00 program that never worked as well after she revealed it. she essentially had to job, she would work during the day, memorizing hundreds of classified documents. then she would go home to her apartment in washington dc and type them up into. ready sheba computer, laptop, computer, encrypt, and then every few weeks she would meet with her cuban handlers in washington in restaurants and passed them all along on disks. she was an ideological spite motivated by politics and her anger at the reagan era. meddling and her words in central america

ah. type of quick check of the headlines here on 0 security forces in brazil have regained control of government buildings attacked by supporters. a former president chapel scenario. hundreds broke into congress, the supreme court and the presidential palace. and the capital brazilian president louisa. now sir lula da silva, has promised a thorough investigation and punishment for those responsible violence comes just a week after he took office following his narr election victory in october. he blamed his predecessor friends citing the attack. we bundled sabby, you'd be well if both everybody knows that this was encouraged by several speeches made by the former president. he encouraged the invasion of the supreme court of the presidential palace. he encouraged the invasion of the 3 governmental powers whenever he could. this is also his responsibility,

and as the responsibility of the parties that supported him, all, this will be investigated forcefully. and very quickly, while jebel, sorrow has responded condemning the violence in a series of tweets. he said, pillaging and invading public buildings is outside the law, but he denied encouraging his supporter, saying, there's no proof to back up lulu. accusations. joe biden has arrived in mexico and his 1st visit to latin america, as you, as president here, will meeting with the mexican leader with migration expected to be. i on the agenda earlier, biden visited the southern us border in the state of texas. the 1st 2 years of the biden administration of seen a dramatic increase, the number of migrants entering the united states about carrying 100 native vibrating or refugees as arrived in the western indonesia, hundreds of ringa have reached archie province. in recent months, ringer muslims are persecuted in their home country of me and laugh. ukraine has dismissed russian claims that hundreds of its soldiers were killed in an overnight

strike. schools and apartment blocks were damaged in the attack in the eastern city of clamor tours. but he claims military says, no one was killed. and a woman who has been called the most dangerous spy in america is free up 21 years in prison. alabama montez was released on friday. she's an american citizen and was recruited by cuba and the 1980s are working for the u. s. intelligence service. she passed secrets to havana for 17 years before her arrest in 2001. well, those are the headlines. the news continues here now j 0 after all held algorithm state you and thanks so much bye. for now. the american people have spoken. but what exactly did they say, is the world looking for a whole new order with less america in it? is the woke agenda on the decline in america. how much is social media companies know about you? and how easy is it to manipulate the quizzical look us politics, the bottom line? when the news breaks, it's designed to represent a better when it's now become

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ah, for the past 3 years, academics, nicole dri, analissa may have been investigating a phenomenon. they call data colonialism. while the nodes scales and context may have changed, they say colonialism, same underlying functions of empire building extraction and appropriation remain that the new land grab going on. there's not land that being grabbed. it's us, it's human life, the acquisition, the construction of data, valuable data for corporate use, out of the flow of our lives that the land grab going on. and that's why we're closing. see only what it does justice to that. let's think for instance of all the end user license agreement or to terms of use that we read whenever we sign up for

a new social media platform. and if we think about the process of being asked to agree with something that we cannot even understand and signing away certain rights, signing away our property in this act, i think it's a very interesting parallel. we're not for one moment saying that colonialism today with data involved, the same horrific level of father was involved in the beginning of colonialism. which saying that the core of historic hello knew him was the force to involve people in a massive new system, a new order, a new organization of the world economy. in the history of colonialism, we've had different empires. and so of course, we can think of the spanish empire, the british empire. i think we would say, at this point in history, in terms of beta colonialism, we have 2 centers of power. we have the united states and one kite on china,

india. and of course, we know the american corporation is very well in terms of google, facebook, amazon. we, we don't know the chinese corporations very well, because their reach is just beginning to expand beyond china. so far, china has been kind of like an internal colony, but we are starting to see how chinese corporations, how the infrastructure developed in china is starting to expand it to different parts of the world, including asia and africa. ah, china's biggest product, while weight technologies, africa has seen a gold mine of countries like south africa, nigeria, kenya, which is wherein now had delivered some of the most rapidly growing. angela new bola has studied the while way effect here in kenya. they're building products, for example, that are suited to the african market, the chief mobile phone that you can get in various african markets as

a chinese phone. those are all over every 90 percent of that and they're building relationships with governments. they providing infrastructure . so while we has provided a lot of infrastructure for surveillance in canyon i, c t and kenya, you work in every country where this develops, developing somewhere in the middle. and that's really useful for governments here. so we advise them on the government data centers on the government services or anything else because shadows its businesses from around the world. and the nice thing is, of course, it provides benefits of people who are connected. metals are business, those generating revenue for us as well. but the other piece of the chinese influence is that the surreptitious, what there's a lot of questions about their tissues, data collection, with technology that's coming in from china. and in some ways, it's the other side of the coin, right? there's a whole lot of data that's being taken out from african countries and from african

citizen to be kept handled use by people who are not necessarily responsible or answerable to african people. the quality does not access people's data, our cell data. so i don't think that we are the kind of companies that are benefiting of people's data. or the only day that we're using is just to improve our products themselves. started using artificial intelligence or smartphones in our network equipment so that it can improve be faster. there is skeptics who would question, adams assertion. after all, most big tech companies do exploit use a daughter in some way. however, even if, while way doesn't do it, there are other chinese operations in africa. they collect and make extensive use of people's data. here in nairobi, the dominance of chinese tech is undeniably from telecommunication lines to satellite networks right down to the phones in people's hands and the apps on those

phones. chinese companies have this market and much of the daughter produces in its russ transient holdings, for instance, cells to over 40 percent of the mobile market in sub saharan africa. it's fine. so under the brand names, techno i tell an infant, but it strategy doesn't end with the hardware. data driven apps like the music streaming service during play and digital payment platform, pompei add to a growing repository of data on african uses and can help boost money, making opportunities for transient. when you think about the little calling as am or data colonialism, i think the thing that gets lost is that the primary objective it was about money was fundamentally about using power user halter using all these kinds of tools to impose one society and other societies. 2 of the 1st society could make money off of that. will you define colonialism like that? then you really start to see the residences. china is pretty investing in africa and many parts of asia for 2030 years,

very systematically is never pretended that it does, its doing anything other than expanding its economic interests. it has not you civilizing rhetoric because it doesn't need to. let's contrast that for the moment with a company like microsoft, which talks about democratizing ai or facebook that is concerned to give as it were, connection connectivity had just been a privilege for some of the rich and powerful. it needs to be something that everyone share. facebook has made a big push to present itself as a benevolent force to get people on line. since 2013, the company has been leading a giant project called into net dot org sort of gateway to the world wide web for those with poor connectivity. the app that serves is the portal to facebook's version of the internet is called free basics,

and it's been launched in at least 60 countries, more than half of them in africa. the idea is to provide access to select sites without data charges. in effect, it's a stripped down version of the internet that has one very important component guaranteed connection with facebook and guaranteed possibilities of daughter extraction. which is why despite the company slick marketing, not everyone is convinced that this is an entirely selfless exercise. ninja or assembly is a leading digital rights advocate. i think what's mostly interesting in the it, what i'll call techno politics is the rush to connect the unconnected and the rush to retain the connected in very specific platforms. a lot of his actors will do anything and everything to make sure at some point or other these uses go through their platforms, because it's all about the data. it's all about how much data can i get about people, so that can sell ads so that you know concrete, predictive things to keep them hooked into what i'm able to offer. and therefore, the, we'll get, we'll keep churning those no way that

a lot of these tech companies would be able to behave in their home countries. the way they behave in the developing world. there is no way that you would be able to roll out a project as big as free basic without some kind of check or valid without some kind of ethical loop. there was no effort to even say, this is what this mean. this is how this will work for you and not really telling right of what they think that african people want and, or need from the internet. projects that are largely in this case, emerging from silicon valley west and america centric approach to connecting the unconnected. i read deeply steeped in the same condescending ways of doing development. so this notion that give them something that is better than nothing. i mean, why would anyone not want that beta colonialism is frame in terms of activity ational missions. when people are connected, we can accomplish some pretty amazing things. just like historical colonialism,

what's frame as well, in terms of bringing progress, bringing something that is good and beneficial for humanity. we can get closer to the people that we care about. we can get access to new jobs and opportunities and ideas. our participation is expected and our participation we are told it for our own good. meanwhile, all of these extraction and capturing of the kind of happening in the background without us realizing the consequences. the facebook free basics model, which is basically about expanding for facebook, the demain of data extraction across the world at a time when demand for facebook is beginning to fall among younger people in particular, in the so called west is very interesting justice. in historic colonialism. the apparent weakness of the colonized population is the lack of weapons. their lack of sudden results is the lack of it. they can amik structure,

suggested to the colonizers that they needed to be colonized. they needed to have whatever the colonial system would offer them to bind them in. free basics is just one of facebook's many initiatives across africa. facebook latest push here and kenya is called express why fi? the company has teamed up with local internet service providers to install why fi hotspots? like here in the mess i town of get together when they ask us of nairobi, jerry nimble sia is a hair dresser, who signed up as a vendor for facebook express, why fi? he gets a commission on every data bundle he sells his customers, say they love the truth 1st book because even myself, i use it and they funded their bundled shipping that cheaper than you compared to other networks. you get the 1st bundled 1100 in business for free. yeah. you find mercy will come back? yes they do. they find it cheaper,

refunded more valuable on the middle of this phone. express why fi has been an undeniable success. yeah. it is made web access cheap of people living in undeserved locations vendor for many people living our own water connected to wish . however, for those studying the activities of facebook and other big tech companies in kenya, it's impossible to ignore the huge potential for data mining. last year, facebook was pushed to admit that it had added its own software to the why fi access points that enabled known facebook data, such as customer names and phone numbers to directly flow to the corporation. while facebook says the purpose of the software is to ensure that hotspots functioning well, there's no clarity on just how much additional daughter is being collected and how that's being used. a lot of these companies aren't african, they're not even based in kenya, in africa. forget kenya alone. so what is a kenyan citizen supposed to do when an american company uses their data, sells their data markets. it's, you know, as a product and without their consent,

without their ability to intervene to appeal to a court system. that's kind of the gray area that we're falling into. the lot of these big tech companies. facebook isn't the only big tech company playing the connectivity cod hearing. can you? last year alphabet, the parent company whose most famous brand is google, signed to deal with telecom, kenya, to quote, connect the unconnected using balloons. yep. the lose loon is a path breaking project that's been 8 years in the making. and the idea is deceptively simple. use high altitude balloons to provide internet connectivity in remote and hard to reach parts of the world. kenya is where loon is making its commercial debut. i spoke with charles merida, he doesn't represent learning, but it's more well known cystic company. google, google's mission from the get go, was to really get a lot of the africans who are offline on might. and to make sure that they get

online in a more affordable. ready and have better con content as well as relevance. and the mission around learn is to ensure that we're able to deliver connectivity to the most remote parts of the continent and around the world. so i'm proud to say that he in kenya is the 1st commercial agreement between noon i was just a company and telecom kenya. what remains to be seen is what standards of accountability there will be. will that mean that people are restricted to only using google esc sites, for instance, that remains to be question what data will be collected in the process of connecting people. i put some of these questions to charles. he made it clear he couldn't say much more battling after all, he doesn't work for that company. he did tell me this though, about google's approach to data collection. so what we do at google is we ensure that we have employed a user trust. that is something that's really important and that uses understand exactly what we're doing with the data that we have on them. we also ensure that

they're able to manage and control. so transparency, ability to manage and control the data that we have on our uses is really critical . and when is so transparent, people get to enjoy the magic of google chose uses a lot of positive payoffs speak, especially when it comes to discussing matters relating to data. that doesn't come as a big surprise because the data ownership access privacy is an incredibly sensitive legal and political issue across the world. governments and regulators have been looking at their data laws more and more seriously. but perhaps the most widely publicized is the european union's general data protection regulation, otherwise known as g d, p r, which set a global benchmark for strengthening individual rights or the personal data. that's really the discrepancy that we're seeing here is that western government, western societies have more space to keep these companies in check and to force

them to abide by their local social standards than countries in other parts of the world. and that's where the colonialism label really starts to become evident. there is not enough space for ordinary african citizens to push their governments on these issues. there's not enough space for us to actually demand a different standard of treatment. ninja ala has a point, just take a look at the state of data regulation around the world. and you'll see how stock the imbalances, ah, according to a study by the lawful deal, a piper, north america, australia, much of europe and china have what they would classify as heavy will. robust regulation for many countries across africa. regulation ranges from moderate to 0. the kenyan government says they're working on it, but the speed at which they are developing policies is being outstripped by the speed at which private players are revolutionizing telecoms and internet

connectivity. i don't think there's anything particularly wrong with our private sector actors taking a lead role if especially again, they have the resources and the wherewithal to be able to do this. the question is, where are state in this game to keep them in check because of the narrative around how any and all digital development is a positive or net positive. ah, asking critical questions is almost seen as being an enemy of progress and therefore the risk is your people in the community civil miss out. so because of that nuanced and problematic notion being created very few politicians and by extension government actors, one to step up to the plate to play this game proactively. which come to think about data as being within ready to be extracted like oil can be extracted from the i certainly used to think of my daughter that way before i began doing research and interviews. but i since come to realize that our lives, locations, family members,

our preferences, that dislikes all of this isn't really data until you create algorithms that can convert every single human being into a collection of bits that money can be made. so this means that the somehow the oil or they call it the day to exhaust naturally within us, which is natural, there to be used by corporations. it happens for their profit is incredibly important message to say there's nothing we can do about this. this is the way things are, but go back 203040 years. this was not the way things we need to hold on to that path to remembering, to pass on the memory of that past in order to show that this remains. the method is at the core of the colonial project. so we're not just talking about the big players, facebook or google, amazon, and in china by do alibaba 10 cent etcetera. the social quantification sector is a larger industry sector that's composed of the big players as well as are all

sorts of hardware manufacturers, software developers, all of these platform inter printers as well as data analytic firms and data broker . so altogether, they constitute this factor that provides the infrastructure for making this extraction possible destruction of data from our human social life . we are the bodies producing the data, but we are not necessarily the ones will benefit from that. so i'll stay here is people's ideas, people's dreams. people talk people's frustrations being used to sell things back to them. where do we actually get our money back? we're not saying no tech in africa. we're not saying, you know, jump over africa as you're thinking about an internet has done a lot of really good things in africa. i mean, a lot of connections possible that were not optimal even 5 years ago. the question is, how do you mitigate the harm? how do you make sure that you protect the good and you corral the bad,

the model that we have now isn't doing that. i think we should be bold enough and brave enough to go back to the drawing board and challenge ourselves to think differently about this model. is there a better way of doing this thing? is there a more humane way of doing the connectivity thing that we're trying to do to all of the corporation? oh, technology is neither positive and negative or neutral. it will always of the intrinsic motivation that exists in a community where it's being deployed. one practical tip that i've found very useful is to keep myself informed and bring in as much critical for it. and questioning of when we are told, you know, technology is the solution and is the disruptor. you know, to question how we arrived at that conclusion. supporting actors,

what make it that day to day like to ask the things is one way to also keep making sure you view your consent are represented. and it's, you know, not to give into their fear. we can still figure out how to use the society technology could help with that. but if that teaching us that we need to go back to the basics of how we form society and how we find consensus and how we quite list in this world. children who are now 5 years or younger, a growing up with toys, which are in fact as robots. algorithmically programmed, which operates by tracking everything they do and playing back to them in forms that help the child grow. everything they say, we don't know what happens to that data, but it will be probably impossible in about 10 years time to say to the child who is now by that stage. like growing up adult. you can live in a world without being tracked algorithmically, every moment of your life is therefore very important. we start in the sense,

speaking the truth to a very new type of power that is walking the face of the i think it is easy to forget, you know, a time, even before all of our lives were ruled in a sense, way all of the technologies and yet when i talk to young people, i'm encouraged by the sense that they don't think all of the inevitable. and they are actually lives deterministic that i am. when i think about technology, when i hear them talk about their changing perceptions towards facebook towards social media, how they're becoming critical of it and how they're becoming more literate consumers in terms of reading the terms of service in terms of trying to make sense of up to technical, legalistic language. i think that gives me hope that people can become more active consumers and participants think that it's really important for us as we're

thinking about the issues that they're pushing. and he's in the challenges at knology present to remember that human being, our core part of this and human nature is very teresa. and it's very repetitive. we've actually been here before with other forms of communication technology. when you think about radio and the role that radio played, for example, in the 2nd world war, when you think about the launch of television and the fears around advertising and the c is around how television will change societies. these are all competitions that are actually happened in the past. and so for me, the big lesson is, let's learn from what has already happened in the past. let's not be afraid to look back. there is nothing radically so radically different about internet technology that human beings haven't really grappled with before.

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