Viewpoint: 'We're living in an age of surveillance capitalism' BBC Ideas

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Pay heed. This is a rather well done and brief synopsis of a trend that is not going away. In fact, as the Internet of Things becomes more prevalent, all of your devices and appliances will be snitching on your behaviors, activities, likes, dislikes, health, etc. constantly.

I also recommend looking into how China has already created a more overt and authoritarian Total Surveillance system that includes a social credits and reeducation camps. There is a growing trend towards a digital cold war between the USA and China due to these kinds of technologies and AI is the crux of the matter. China is also exporting its surveillance/recognition systems to other countries under the guise of better security, so it is spreading to its economic and political allies.

There is plenty of information about this on YouTube and the Web.

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I recommend Shoshana Zubhoff's work as she has done a lot of research on this topic. She has some talks online and a book on this. It is a real threat to democracy if you want to keep it.

Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “We Thought We Were Searching Google, But Google Was Searching Us” - Democracy Now

Corporations have created a new kind of marketplace out of our private human experiences. That is the conclusion of an explosive new book that argues big tech platforms like Facebook and Google are elephant poachers, and our personal data is ivory tusks.