The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism

Submitted by WindDancer13 on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 4:09pm

Long (very), but well worth it. Suggestion: watch it in parts, take the time to think and process the information, rinse and repeat.

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Join The Intercept’s senior correspondent Naomi Klein and Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff, author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power,” for an engaging discussion about the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism” and the quest by corporations to predict and control our behavior.

The video itself is an encapsulation of the book, kind of a Spark's Notes version. The further reduced Cliff Notes version is here:

Part 1

Part 2

Discuss (or not) amongst yourselves. I am only sharing the information.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 5:14pm

This article is more on what is discussed in the videos

Transcript for part 1

The videos and this article go hand in hand and both have different tidbits of information about the massive spying we are subjected to. This shows the many ways we're being spied on too. I wanted to essay this, but it's really too long to properly excerpt so I highly recommend reading it. We are being spied upon 6 ways to Sunday and there isn't a lot we can do about it at the government level, but we can refuse to buy the gadgets to allow them into our homes. Amazon didn't create Alexa to make it easier for us to go through our daily lives, but so that they can give or sell our information to the government.

Uncle Sam wants you.

Correction: Big Brother wants you.

Winston tried to escape from this. It's looking like Orwell's 1984 was taken as an instruction manual.

The Age Of Tyrannical Surveillance: We're Being Branded, Bought, & Sold For Our Data

“We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about… Your digital identity will live forever... because there’s no delete button.”

To be technically accurate, Big Brother—aided and abetted by his corporate partners in crime—wants your data.

That’s what we have been reduced to in the eyes of the government and Corporate America: data bits and economic units to be bought, bartered and sold to the highest bidder.

Those highest bidders include America’s political class and the politicians aspiring to get elected or re-elected. As the Los Angeles Times reports, “If you have been to a political rally, a town hall, or just fit a demographic a campaign is after, chances are good your movements are being tracked with unnerving accuracy by data vendors on the payroll of campaigns.”

Your phones, televisions and digital devices are selling you out to politicians who want your vote.

Have you shopped at Whole Foods? Tested out target practice at a gun range? Sipped coffee at Starbucks while surfing the web? Visited an abortion clinic? Watched FOX News or MSNBC? Played Candy Crush on your phone? Walked through a mall? Walked past a government building?

That’s all it takes for your data to be hoovered up, sold and used to target you.

This is the age of surveillance capitalism.

Incredibly, once you’ve been identified and tracked, data brokers can travel back in time, digitally speaking, to discover where you’ve been, who you’ve been with, what you’ve been doing, and what you’ve been reading, viewing, buying, etc.
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If you’re an activist and you simply like or share this article on Facebook or retweet it on Twitter, you’re most likely flagging yourself as a potential renegade, revolutionary or anti-government extremist—a.k.a. terrorist...

Still think that the FEMA camps are conspiracy theory?

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Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.

Submitted by mimi on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 5:39pm

I think the larger problem is not that they want to surveille us

@snoopydawg
for our data, but that they use our 'addiction to wanting to know everything and discuss it' to manipulate our emotions.

It's a book I definitely will get and I hope it's also available in German after a couple of months.

I just wonder when every one here realized what the internet platform on the web was doing to our independent thinking and freedom of thought. For me it was very early and just due to pure coincidence and luck (or the opposite of luck) like in 1996 to 1997. I learned a couple of lessons very early (as a human being and not as a techie) and it made me a stubborn conscientious resistor to facebook later on. I didn't get google as easily and still am struggling to judge its role.

Anyhow, many thanks to point to the book and the interviews. Great stuff.

Transcript for part 1

The videos and this article go hand in hand and both have different tidbits of information about the massive spying we are subjected to. This shows the many ways we're being spied on too. I wanted to essay this, but it's really too long to properly excerpt so I highly recommend reading it. We are being spied upon 6 ways to Sunday and there isn't a lot we can do about it at the government level, but we can refuse to buy the gadgets to allow them into our homes. Amazon didn't create Alexa to make it easier for us to go through our daily lives, but so that they can give or sell our information to the government.

Uncle Sam wants you.

Correction: Big Brother wants you.

Winston tried to escape from this. It's looking like Orwell's 1984 was taken as an instruction manual.

The Age Of Tyrannical Surveillance: We're Being Branded, Bought, & Sold For Our Data

“We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about… Your digital identity will live forever... because there’s no delete button.”

To be technically accurate, Big Brother—aided and abetted by his corporate partners in crime—wants your data.

That’s what we have been reduced to in the eyes of the government and Corporate America: data bits and economic units to be bought, bartered and sold to the highest bidder.

Those highest bidders include America’s political class and the politicians aspiring to get elected or re-elected. As the Los Angeles Times reports, “If you have been to a political rally, a town hall, or just fit a demographic a campaign is after, chances are good your movements are being tracked with unnerving accuracy by data vendors on the payroll of campaigns.”

Your phones, televisions and digital devices are selling you out to politicians who want your vote.

Have you shopped at Whole Foods? Tested out target practice at a gun range? Sipped coffee at Starbucks while surfing the web? Visited an abortion clinic? Watched FOX News or MSNBC? Played Candy Crush on your phone? Walked through a mall? Walked past a government building?

That’s all it takes for your data to be hoovered up, sold and used to target you.

This is the age of surveillance capitalism.

Incredibly, once you’ve been identified and tracked, data brokers can travel back in time, digitally speaking, to discover where you’ve been, who you’ve been with, what you’ve been doing, and what you’ve been reading, viewing, buying, etc.
....
If you’re an activist and you simply like or share this article on Facebook or retweet it on Twitter, you’re most likely flagging yourself as a potential renegade, revolutionary or anti-government extremist—a.k.a. terrorist...

Still think that the FEMA camps are conspiracy theory?

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