zuboff s 2019 the age of surveillance capitalism

Europe’s recently implemented General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law offers some potential protection against surveillance capitalism, but Zuboff isn’t sure how it will play out. In United States federal law the Fourth Amendment appears as a related thing, offering Americans protection from unjust search however, this tends to cover public (governmental) actions, leaving private (corporate) actors free (480). Zuboff sketches the concept’s history “as an antidote to power since the beginning of the human story” (478). It begins by posing the idea of sanctuary as a way of thinking about privacy. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign has made a key theme of going after big tech companies.Ĭhapter 17 (The Right to Sanctuary) concerns ways of opposing surveillance capitalism.

The same paper reports that the federal Justice Department and FTC have strategized antitrust moves against Amazon and Google. A Washington Post column complained about iPhones supporting surveillance. The Canadian parliament summoned Facebook’s Zuckerberg and Sanders to appear the Facebook leaders refused. Google complained about Apple, raising the specter of privacy as a luxury, and Apple responded. Many Zuboff-oriented stories appeared in the news over the past few days. (If that sounds strange, here are some examples of previous readings, complete with reader responses.) You can also write on Twitter, LinkedIn, your own blog, or elsewhere on the web. How can you respond? You, dear reader, can respond through whichever technological means make the most sense to you. I’ll also recap what readers have shared. In this post I’ll summarize the chapters, then add some observations and questions. Today we’re covering chapters 17: The Right to Sanctuary, and 18: A Coup from Above. Our online book club is coming to the end of Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.

Zuboff s 2019 the age of surveillance capitalism