Surveillance Capitalism

Author Shoshana Zuboff details her thoughts within her new book on the subject of surveillance capitalism:

We searched Google, but now Google searches us. Once we thought of digital services as free, but now surveillance capitalists think of us as free.

The first conflict is over the distribution of knowledge: “Who knows?” The second is about authority: “Who decides who knows?” The third is about power: “Who decides who decides who knows?”

We are the native peoples now whose claims to self-determination have vanished from the maps of our own experience.

Private companies utilize and sell our information
They are privately privy to our collective actions and intentions

Paradoxically, this coup is celebrated as “personalisation” although it defiles, ignores, overrides, and displaces everything about you and me that is personal. … In the rush to share ourselves, we lose our personal intimacy.

The historical, political and economic conditions that allowed them to succeed… reasons include need for inclusion, identification with tech leaders and their projects, social persuasion dynamics, a sense of inevitability, helplessness and resignation

0ur participation is best explained in terms of necessity, dependency, the foreclosure of alternatives, and enforced ignorance

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook

marked by taking things that live outside the market sphere and declaring their new life as market commodities

they know more about us than we know about ourselves or than we know about them

In the Age of the Smart Machine - duality of information technology as an informating and an automating technology

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