High Order Bit
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Argues that data behaves like a person with eight concrete traits: some artifacts resist digitization and must stay physical; many flows are intermediated (an Indian kiosk aggregates content for 850 million phones); context matters (car contents misread across countries); data goes feral beyond controls; data carries custodial duties from cultural knowledge; much of it is performative — 100% of Americans lie in dating profiles versus 60% in the UK; and some data is meant to disappear.
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