Data trauma results from various forms of algorithmic violence and describes the psychological and physical impacts of navigation through digital infrastructures that are constructed so that they exploit, categorize, extract, and monetarize individuals. The user is subjected to these practices, usually capitalist in nature, and not perceived as a person, but as a series of habits and a commodity with a certain value (or no value at all). In this way, individuals’ potential to develop and grow is negated and power relations are established based on these technologies. For the users, traumatic experiences take place in their digitalized and algorithmized everyday life by way of interaction with algorithmic systems and decisions.

See also: Open Secret, New Extractivism