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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

After destroying the U.S. foreign aid system, the Trump administration is now demanding multiple African nations hand over their citizen's sensitive health care data in exchange for life-saving healthcare funding. This is the data colonialism nightmare a lot of us were worried about 10 years ago.

propublica.org“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty ConcernsThe United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...

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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

The African nations that hand over their data for the Trump admin to do God knows what with will, of course, NOT be prioritized for access to medical products that are PRODUCED with their data:

Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

I've done some of my own writing on how data/digital colonialism has been too often tethered to efforts to provide aid, like this piece from 2019 about Facebook's efforts to map the planet digitally...to get more people online, but also to create more Facebook users:

productivityhub.orgFacebook Is Putting Us All on the MapWhether we like it or not 2019 has been a distinctly dramatic year for Facebook. Since January, the social media behemoth has been hit with a $5 billion fine for privacy violations and remains&nbsp…