Your Data, Our Democracy
Around the world, as elections become increasingly data-intensive, our personal data is becoming a political asset for campaigns to leverage in pursuit of electoral success and political power. This educational short film explains to voters some of the ways in which our personal data is being used and alludes to the larger democratic consequences of the ‘datafication’ of politics. What does the development of the ‘Influence Industry’ mean for our democracies, and what can we do about it?