Existing contest categories like monopoly and privacy cannot grasp surveillance capitalism

Evidence

The unprecedented nature of surveillance capitalism has enabled it to elude systematic contest because it cannot be adequately grasped with our existing concepts. We rely on categories such as “monopoly” or “privacy” to contest surveillance capitalist practices. And although these issues are vital, and even when surveillance capitalist operations are also monopolistic and a threat to privacy, the existing categories nevertheless fall short in identifying and contesting the most crucial and unprecedented facts of this new regime. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 54

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to arguments about regulatory gaps and the inadequacy of antitrust framing in platform economics. — connects to: Surveillance capitalism’s dangers exceed privacy and monopoly concerns — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 546; Privacy protections are structurally incompatible with surveillance capitalism’s accumulation logic — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 601
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what specific legal and political failures follow from misusing these categories?

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism’s dangers exceed privacy and monopoly concerns #corroborates (0.95) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 546
• Privacy protections are structurally incompatible with surveillance capitalism’s accumulation logic #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 601