Cory Doctorow on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

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Cory Doctorow has writtten an extended rebuttal of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. He summarized the argument on Twitter.

Shorter summary: it's not the surveillance part, it's the fact that these companies are monopolies.

I think it's both. Surveillance capitalism has some unique properties that make it particularly unethical and incompatible with a free society, and Zuboff makes them clear in her book. But the current acceptance of monopolies in our society is also extremely damaging -- which Doctorow makes clear.


from Schneier on Security https://ift.tt/34AOzYA

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