Given that 2017 saw 1,120 data breaches with more than 171 million records exposed in the United States alone, no one can deny that criminal players are part of the social quantification sector. The role of crime is particularly important when, as noted in chapter 1, the overall insecurity of infrastructures of connection is increasing.

Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, loc. 204