Kled's Colonial Supply Chain Cracks in Nigeria
· Source: techbuzz.ai
In short
The article examines Kled, a San Francisco data marketplace that pays users for uploading personal data, and its recent IP-level ban on Nigeria after claiming 95% of uploads were fraudulent. It frames the platform's operations as a form of data colonialism, drawing parallels to historical resource extraction and arguing that consent obtained from economically precarious users is structurally coercive. The piece calls for African regulators to enforce data protection laws like Nigeria's NDPA 2023 and the AU Malabo Convention to assert data sovereignty.
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Tags: data colonialism, supply chain, Nigeria, data protection, AI training, ethics