This critique confronts the ethics of museum data, digitisation, and collections databases, exposing how efficiency, ownership, and authority are repeatedly prioritised over humanity. Through reflections on human remains, open access, and colonial legacies, it calls for slower, more intentional practices that centre care, dignity, consent, and community authority. It asks what happens when systems remember collectors, but silence people!

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