Digital-era privacy rights were usurped by unilateral market claims on experience.

Evidence

By 2018, the assumptions of the Aware Home were gone with the wind. Where did they go? What was that wind? The Aware Home, like many other visionary projects, imagined a digital future that empowers individuals to lead more-effective lives. What is most critical is that in the year 2000 this vision naturally assumed an unwavering commitment to the privacy of individual experience. Should an individual choose to render her experience digitally, then she would exercise exclusive rights to the knowledge garnered from such data, as well as exclusive rights to decide how such knowledge might be put to use. Today these rights to privacy, knowledge, and application have been usurped by a bold market venture powered by unilateral claims to others’ experience and the knowledge that flows from it. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 34

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to discussion of the Lex Oppia and sumptuary control — shifts in who holds rights over personal domain parallel the shift in who controls personal data. — 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 capital derives from the dispossession of human experience — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1583; Digital contract weightlessness lets firms extract rights that paper terms could not impose — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 152 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism conquered through unilateral declarations, not permission seeking #corroborates (0.90) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 564
• Surveillance capital derives from the dispossession of human experience #expands (0.88) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1583
• Privacy law’s negative liberty tradition conflicts with capitalism’s data extraction drive. #corroborates (0.82) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 549
• Digital contract weightlessness lets firms extract rights that paper terms could not impose #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 152