Perspectives from Higher Education: Applied Sciences University Teachers on the Digitalization of the Bioeconomy : The Acceptance of Digital Surveillance in an Age of Big Data

IntroductionProlific news media such as Bloomberg, Forbes and the Financial Times have increasingly warned about the rise of the “surveillance state” that “aims at preventive mass surveillance on [an] everyday basis” and is connected with potentially coercive use of control against specific people or groups on a political or other basis (Lemieux, 2020).