Data Cartels: Interview with Sarah Lamdan | DigiLabour

Sarah Lamdan is a Professor at CUNY School of Law and researchers information law and policy. In November, she will publish the book Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information (Stanford University Press). Lamdan argues that “data analytics” companies are mining, commodifying, and selling our data and informational resources, perpuate social inequalities and threaten the democratic sharing of knowledge. The book calls for treating information like a public good and creating digital infrastructure that supports our democratic ideals. In this interview, Sarah Lamdan talked to Rafael Grohmann on Data Cartels book.