ABSTRACT
Rapidly developing technologies within multiple data realms have given rise to a presumptive new stage of economic development. Termed “Work 4.0” these changes are purported to signal the next global stage of post-industrial development. Healthcare, and by extension public health, are situated within this overall process. At the center of the new technologies of healthcare are those that vastly increase the power of surveillance over populations in both the global North and South. The resulting benefits that arise from improved healthcare and public health are challenged by the costs such populations pay in the form of invasive information practices by both public and private sector actors. Beyond the negative and restrictive effects of increased surveillance in society, aided by new technologies, novel forms of community-focused and democratized engagements are also on the rise.
