sovereign subject of democratic politics (Habermas 1974, 52). Appositely, the trope of public supervision has been indispensable to the critical literature on surveillance and Big Data (e.g., Allmer 2011; Fuchs 2011; Hier & Greenberg 2009; Gandy 2006; Lessig 1999; Lyon 2014; Marx 2004; Monahan 2010; Simon 2005; Turow 2014; O’Harrow 2005; Wood 2009). Indeed, even ‘post-panoptic’ and ‘post-repres...