‘I’ve left enough data’: Relations between people and data and the production of surveillance

Exploring emergent relations between data-producing individuals and their data products, this study aims to contribute the ongoing scholarly discussion on agencies in practices. It focuses shifts surveillance structure era of Big Data, which individual becomes both a subject an object production surveillance. Drawing concept ‘dividual’, analyses practices for tracing system invented by South Korean government during COVID-19 pandemic, with findings from field research conducted 11 participants various urban sites Seoul. Highlighting how positioned ‘in hands citizens’, exposes complexities that formed they produced, reflexively reappropriated through alterations deflections basis tacit knowledge imaginaries concerning digital constituent positions system. The resultant expression was directly shaped evolving relationship producers (participants) products (digital data). proposes intersectional focus critical studies, close attention ordinary people's data, has capacity inquire into politics more fully.