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What’s My Surveillance Capitalism Score? Great Hack Star Says You Should Know
November 19, 2019/
A revolution is brewing, the resistance is growing, could the end be nigh for surveillance capitalism? The term, coined by Harvard’s Shoshana Zuboff, is used to describe the productization of the human experience by corporate interests for the sole purpose of selling advertising at whatever cost to individual freedom and society.
The data monopolies of the past decade, which include Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google, have spurred massive economic growth and the longest bull run in history, but if Cambridge Analytica has taught us anything, it’s that selling our soul (literally) for infinite prosperity has its price.
