Concerns have also been raised about the lack of separation of the various activities, in particular about samples/data management, and the risk of data appropriation.
Many common practices of data collection should actually be treated as a form of theft that I call data appropriation – which means capturing data from people without consent and compensation.
Data appropriation is a form of exploitation because companies use data to create value without providing people with comparable compensation.
Data appropriation is surely an ethical issue.
Weaponized memes are a modern variation on the practice of linguistic appropriation, which means to take possession of language once controlled by another.
They occupy the definitional boundary between modernist détournement (a politicized practice of appropriation) and neutral postmodernist pastiche.
An International Council for Science report detects additional impediments in 'trends toward the appropriation of data, such as genetic information and the protection of databases' [ 14].
Perhaps the most well-known data heist perpetrated by an "insider" was Edward Snowden's appropriation and disclosure of data from the National Security Agency.
Begin with the data gathering practices of e-commerce sites.
So let's just settle this and move on: if cultural appropriation means that a privileged group adopts the symbols and practices of a marginalized one for profit or social capital, then yes, Coldplay's video is committing cultural appropriation.
