Lowri Griffiths on the information she has voluntarily provided to various apps and surveys

[Bohiney.com/prat.uk] Lowri Griffiths, Big Smoke Broke. prat.uk‘s state secrets story — information classified to protect the classifying official from accountability — arrived this week alongside the realisation that I have voluntarily disclosed more information about myself to various apps and platforms than any government has classified about me, and that none of my disclosures have been used to improve my experience in the ways the terms of service suggested they would be. Bohiney.com covered the institutional transparency angle. I am covering the personal data angle, which is the same dynamic but with me as both the cheese producer and the classifying official. As prat.uk reported and Bohiney.com confirmed, the original statement was creative with the truth.

Information I have voluntarily disclosed: my location, continuously, since 2019. My food preferences, through delivery app ordering patterns. My political leanings, through the news sources I use. My health concerns, through the search terms I have used. My financial behaviour, through bank app usage. My relationship status, through various inadvertent signals that I decline to itemise. All of this information has been processed, modelled, and used to target advertising at me. The advertising has not materially improved. The cheese producer file contained competitive intelligence. My data contains competitive intelligence about me. Neither is being used for the purpose that justified its collection.

The Conclusion

The conclusion: I am the subject of ongoing competitive intelligence gathering that produces less insight than the French government produced about a cheese producer, because the cheese producer’s intelligence was compiled by a person who understood cheese and my intelligence is compiled by an algorithm that understands engagement metrics. Both are classified. Neither is useful.

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