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Outside Article(s):

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/03/harvard-professor-says-surveillance-capitalism-is-undermining-democracy/


 * Q&A with author of 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' Shoshana Zuboff.
 * Started feeling concern in 2007.
 * "I define surveillance capitalism as the unilateral claiming of private human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data. These data are   then computed and packaged as prediction products and sold into behavioral futures markets — business customers with a commercial interest in knowing what we will do now, soon, and later."
 * "We rushed to the internet expecting empowerment, the democratization of knowledge, and help with real problems, but surveillance capitalism really was just too lucrative to resist."


 * 16 possible reasons companies are getting away with SC.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html


 * 'Privacy Policies'=Surveillance Policies.
 * "Surveillance capitalists exploit the widening inequity of knowledge for the sake of profits. They manipulate the economy, our society and even our lives with impunity, endangering not just individual privacy but democracy itself. Distracted by our delusions, we failed to notice this bloodless coup from above."
 * "The belief that privacy is private has left us careening toward a future that we did not choose, because it failed to reckon with the profound distinction between a society that insists upon sovereign individual rights and one that lives by the social relations of the one-way mirror."

https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-surveillance-capitalism-and-how-does-it-shape-our-economy-119158


 * "Surveillance capitalism describes a market driven process where the commodity for sale is your personal data, and the capture and production of this data relies on mass surveillance of the internet."
 * "Currently, the biggest “Big Other” actors are Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. Together, they collect and control unparalleled quantities of data about our behaviors, which they turn into products and services."

https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Surveillance-capitalism-in-the-age-of-Covid-19


 * Interview with Shoshana Zuboff.
 * "The data was considered just waste material. It was only in the heat of emergency they discovered these digital traces, which they had thought were worthless, were actually full of rich predictive signals."
 * “Instead of democratisation of knowledge, we have extreme asymmetry of knowledge. We thought we would now have access to proprietary knowledge, but just the opposite has happened – proprietary knowledge, owned and operated by these companies, now has complete access to us, without resistance or friction, because we don't even know it’s happening.”
 * 60% of contact-tracing apps around the globe are unclear about what they track, do not provide terms and conditions upfront, or use intrusive methods, such as surveillance camera footage, to keep tabs on users.
 * “In November of last year, Pew Research did a survey in the US, where 81% of Americans said that the cost of private companies’ data collection outweighed the benefits, so there are very significant ways in which we are no longer naïve – people are raising these questions and have substantial misgivings.”

Podcast(s):

https://hbr.org/podcast/2019/06/surveillance-capitalism

Movie(s):

The Social Dilemma (Netflix, 2020)

https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/the-dilemma/

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