Compliance-Industrial Complex: The Operating System of a Pre-Crime Society: Kuldova, Tereza Østbø: 9783031192234: Amazon.com: Books

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“Kuldova’s book offers a short and powerful summary of the ideology that largely supports the automation of society.” (Algorithm Watch, r.algorithmwatch.org, November 1, 2022)

"This landmark text demonstrates how compliance measures have morphed into an entire industrial complex that is reshaping the very fabric of the regulation, governance, and policing of both ordinary workers and elite corporate actors. Frightening in some of its implications, it shows that the drab and tedious realm of compliance is something to be taken very seriously and given our undivided critical attention. Kuldova achieves the impressive feat of making an otherwise dull subject crackle with life and political urgency. Essential reading for anyone who has ever completed a mandatory e-learning course."

"It's often been said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Kuldova's cutting-edge research into what she calls the 'compliance-industrial complex' reveals in fine detail how new hi-tech systems of algorithmic information gathering and social management, while claiming to make the world a safer and better place, are dehumanising our everyday lives, displacing democratic politics, threatening hard-won freedoms and pushing us along that very road at an increasing pace. Very few academic research monographs can be legitimately described as 'page-turners', but this is one of them."

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