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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Shoshana Zuboff
Public Affairs, 2018
First Edition: 2019

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Eye Opening
  • Background
  • Concrete Examples

Recommendation

Harvard professor emerita Shoshana Zuboff discusses the growth, prevalence, and ramifications of “surveillance capitalism” through the lenses of business and the economy, privacy and ethics, politics and law, as well as the intersections of these systems. She provides a well-researched, harrowing tale of contemporary and future business practices. While Zuboff cautions you to protect your privacy and human rights, she provides scant guidance on how to do so, unfortunately. Nevertheless, Zuboff’s reportage matters to anyone interested in e-commerce and privacy rights, and to Google or Facebook users – in other words, to everyone.

Take-Aways

  • Surveillance capitalism isn’t technology but a logic that drives technology, commanding its actions.
  • Surveillance capitalism translates what people do into data.
  • Surveillance capitalism developed rapidly since 2002, when Google noticed trends that allowed it to capitalize on user behavior.

About the Author

Shoshana Zuboff taught at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and is Harvard Business School’s Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emerita. 

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