surveillance capitalism

Some wearers are propelled by the desire to opt out of what has been called “surveillance capitalism” — an economy that churns human experiences into data for profit — while others fear government invasion of privacy.

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The latest version of this critique comes in the form of “surveillance capitalism,” a term coined by business professor Shoshana Zuboff in her long and influential 2019 book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.

How to Destroy ‘Surveillance Capitalism’ Cory Doctorow 2021

Given the growing power of those algorithms, I wanted to find more about what Shoshana Zuboff calls “surveillance capitalism” – the myriad ways in which the “internet of things” and social media are selling our private lives to advertisers.

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez – a world designed for men Eliane Glaser 2019

Many of Google’s products besides search, from YouTube to Maps, collect data on users, which enables personalisation of your ads – this model is the foundational example of what technology commentator Shoshana Zuboff has called “surveillance capitalism”.

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It’s also that these tools would dramatically scale up what the scholar Shoshana Zuboff has labeled “surveillance capitalism”: an extensive system in which corporations treat our experiences and identities as commodities they can use to manipulate us through advertising.

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