Every Breath You Take, I’ll Be Watching You. Explicit Surveillance and Algorithmic Countersurveillance in Healthcare

In this chapter we explore resistance practices applied to algorithmic surveillance in the health domain, with a specific focus on the Italian contact-tracing app “Immuni” specifically developed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Algorithmic resistance is indeed a specific reac- tion against the power of algorithms as largely described in the literature (Velkova & Kaun, 2021). Although localised within the Italian context, we believe that the Immuni app is a good case to reflect on some inter- esting aspects since it entails some key features of algorithmic resistance in general and introduces an up-to-date case study for health control.