[ijoc.org/ojs] Retained
(via digital storage) metadata of telecommunications acts change and
transform into the content of something else: a surveillance program.
Originating from telecommunications as a protocol necessity, the
metadata is fed into a data space that freezes and manipulates the time
axis. This measurement of post-9/11 governing is only one item in an
assemblage of surveillance technologies that are not watching, in the
manner of traditional CCTV, but processing the population under
observation. Since data processing is a more recent, counterintuitive,
and still relatively opaque principle, its capacities are not
adequately understood, nor are they established in the general
understanding. The concept of a data space that provides movement
within and between data described here illustrates the powers of data
retention in an imaginable way.
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