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Part Two of Surveillance Capitalism at the Limits to Economic Growth – social controls through digital infrastructures have bio-physical limits
Part Two of Surveillance Capitalism at the Limits to Economic Growth – social controls through digital infrastructures have bio-physical limits Part Two For Shoshana Zuboff, to be human involves using one’s will to shape one’s own future. In this respect she draws on the philosopher Hannah Arendt. Arendt analysed the totalitarianism of Nazi Germany and […]
Sidewalk Labs’ Smart Cities Will Create A For-Profit Social Credit System That Controls Judges And Police
Sidewalk Labs’ Smart Cities Will Create A For-Profit Social Credit System That Controls Judges And Police Smart city surveillance, is much worse than anyone could have imagined. Two years ago, I revealed how a CIA “signature school” was installing thousands of CCTV cameras and microphones in smart cities, but Sidewalk Labs wants to take public surveillance to […]
2019: The Three Trends That Matter
2019: The Three Trends That Matter Look no further than Brexit in Britain, the yellow vests in France and the Deplorables in the U.S. for manifestations of a broken social contract and decaying social order. Among the many trends currently in play, Gordon Long and I discuss three that will matter as 2019 progresses: 2019 Themes (56 […]
‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism Shoshana Zuboff’s new book is a chilling exposé of the business model that underpins the digital world. Observer tech columnist John Naughton explains the importance of Zuboff’s work and asks the author 10 key questions We’re living through the most profound transformation […]
The World Google Controls and Surveillance Capitalism
The World Google Controls and Surveillance Capitalism I have been following the scandal of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act(also known as the Snoopers’ Charter) and Holland’s Sleepwet and their relationship to the encroaching government powers over private data, privacy, data collection, surveillance, and free speech for several years now. And very much related to these […]
“Colonizing Experiment in Surveillance Capitalism”: Privacy Expert Resigns From Google-Backed Smart City Project Over Surveillance Concerns
“Colonizing Experiment in Surveillance Capitalism”: Privacy Expert Resigns From Google-Backed Smart City Project Over Surveillance Concerns A privacy expert tasked with protecting personal data within a Google-backed smart city project has resigned as her pro-privacy guidelines would largely be ignored by participants. “I imagined us creating a Smart City of Privacy, as opposed to a Smart City […]
Surveillance Capitalism: Monetizing the Smartphone User
Smartphones and tablets give you access to information wherever you are. Whenever you use a device connected to the internet you are leaving a digital footprint of personal data that tech companies are likely harvesting and selling. (rawpixel/pixababy) Surveillance Capitalism: Monetizing the Smartphone User Commentary This article is part of a series on corporate surveillance […]
Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Surveillance Capitalism
Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Surveillance Capitalism Whether it creeps into politics, marketing, or simple profiling, the nature of surveillance as totality has been affirmed by certain events this decade. The Edward Snowden disclosures of 2013 demonstrated the complicity and collusion between Silicon Valley and the technological stewards of the national security state. It took the […]
