Thursday, 28 March , 2024

Surveillance Capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Surveillance capitalism is an assault on human autonomy’

What began as advertising is now a threat to freedom and democracy argues the author and scholar. Time to wake up - and fight...

Can the Internet be saved?

by Chris Spannos 7 April 2018 News that Cambridge Analytica exploited the huge cache of Facebook user data, and that Facebook elevated commercial interests above...

Our Global Repressive Political Future

by Graham E. Fuller January 29, 2019 As one looks out over the global scene, the outlook for democratic societies appears increasingly dismal. (I’ll avoid a...

It’s not that we’ve failed to rein in Facebook and Google....

By Shoshana Zuboff 2 Jul 2019 In a BBC interview last week, Facebook’s vice-president, Nick Clegg, surprised viewers by calling for new “rules of the road”...

Ce n’est pas que nous n’avons pas réussi à tenir Facebook...

Par Shoshana Zuboff Mardi 2 Juillet 2019 Les géants de la technologie utilisent nos données non seulement pour anticiper notre comportement, mais aussi pour le changer....

How Silicon Valley’s ‘surveillance capitalism’ is enriching its leaders and making...

By David Dodwell 10 Feb, 2019 “They know everything about us, while their operations are designed to be unknowable to us. They predict our futures and...

Amazon’s fusion with the state shows neoliberalism’s drift to neo-fascism

By Elliot Gabriel June 30, 2018 Originally published: Mint Press News (June 29, 2018) In Part 1 of our investigative series on Surveillance Capitalism, MPN spoke to...

Total Surveillance Capitalism

31.05.2018 Three of the world’s seven billion people are now computer-mediated in a wide range of their daily activities far beyond the traditional boundaries of...