{"title":"Data cartels: The companies that control and monopolize our information","authors":"E. Lim","doi":"10.1080/08963568.2023.2184978","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The word ‘cartel’ often conjures a definition focusing on price fixing and production manipulation to increase profits and reduce competition. When used in the context of the critical information that governs our lives and personal and private behavior, the term ‘cartel’ takes on a more sinister aspect with shades of ethical impropriety. Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information is a full expository on information cartels controlling the prices of the different types of data: personal data, academic research, legal information, financial data, and news. The author a law professor and a former law librarian specializes in data privacy and information access, among other areas. Her book takes us inside these cartels’ free-for-all realm, showing how they collect, commodify, and monetize our informational and data assets. These cartels are responsible for reinforcing social inequality and threatening democratic knowledge exchange.","PeriodicalId":44062,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship","volume":"28 1","pages":"150 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08963568.2023.2184978","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The word ‘cartel’ often conjures a definition focusing on price fixing and production manipulation to increase profits and reduce competition. When used in the context of the critical information that governs our lives and personal and private behavior, the term ‘cartel’ takes on a more sinister aspect with shades of ethical impropriety. Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information is a full expository on information cartels controlling the prices of the different types of data: personal data, academic research, legal information, financial data, and news. The author a law professor and a former law librarian specializes in data privacy and information access, among other areas. Her book takes us inside these cartels’ free-for-all realm, showing how they collect, commodify, and monetize our informational and data assets. These cartels are responsible for reinforcing social inequality and threatening democratic knowledge exchange.
期刊介绍：
The Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship is an innovative quarterly journal that provides you with useful articles about the creation, organization, dissemination, retrieval, and use of business information. This refereed journal covers the business information needs of special libraries, academic libraries, and public libraries, as well as information services and centers outside of the traditional library setting. You"ll find that the journal is international in scope, reflecting the multinational and international scope of the business community today. The immediate focus of the journal is practice-oriented articles, but it also provides an outlet for new empirical studies on business librarianship and business information.
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