S06E10: How Colonial Law Shaped Modern Data Extraction

In this episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast, Jordan Loewen-Colon traces a genealogy from Roman res nullius and the Doctrine of Discovery to today’s data economy. The conversation names Data Nullius as a digital version of colonial erasure that turns attention, behavior, and community knowledge into extractive data, then asks what changes when data is treated as relational responsibility rather than ownerless property.

Podcast link: https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/season6/episode-10/

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