Humanitarian extractivism provides an innovative perspective on how the aid sector uses technology to embrace the challenges of the twenty-first century. Focusing on how practices of data extraction shift power towards states, the private sector and humanitarians, the book illustrates how new partnerships - with a focus on data governance, marketisation and surveillance - emerge through digital transformation. Humanitarian data is harnessed for monetary, experimental and political purposes. In conflict-ridden and fragile settings, providing data about the body is increasingly a precondition for receiving humanitarian aid - but engenders risk for individuals' physical as well as their digital bodies. Drawing on two decades of engagement with the humanitarian field as a scholar, practitioner, activist and ethics advisor, the author provides an in-depth insight into key aspects of the digital transformation. How is humanitarian work changing? How do we protect children's digital bodies? What is the role of experimentation in humanitarian aid? Are humanitarians accountable for cyber-attacks? What role will the drone airspace play in aid? While there is talk of 'ethics-washing,' how can work on humanitarian ethics support local innovation labs? Humanitarian extractivism covers disasters, development contexts and conflict settings, and draws on examples from emergency zones globally. Written in an engaging and personal style, the story of how aid is becoming a practice of humanitarian extraction will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, innovators and policymakers - and anyone interested in how technology changes the way we understand crisis and human suffering.