Default data harvesting contradicts capitalism’s own espoused freedom.

Evidence

It is time to call out the contradiction between capitalism’s current business models (based on default data harvesting) and the value of freedom that capitalism’s representatives claim to espouse. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 627

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s attention/surveillance reading on how platform economies degrade the very freedoms they advertise. — connects to: Privacy law’s negative liberty tradition conflicts with capitalism’s data extraction drive. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 549; Surveillance capitalists claim market freedom while dismantling the ignorance it was premised on — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1578

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalists claim market freedom while dismantling the ignorance it was premised on #contradicts (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1578