Google engineered its methods specifically to claim data users intentionally withheld

Evidence

The scientists thus make clear that they are willing—and that their inventions are able—to overcome the friction entailed in users’ decision rights. Google’s proprietary methods enable it to surveil, capture, expand, construct, and claim behavioral surplus, including data that users intentionally choose not to share. Recalcitrant users will not be obstacles to data expropriation. No moral, legal, or social constraints will stand in the way of finding, claiming, and analyzing others’ behavior for commercial purposes. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 250

Categorization

• QUESTION: The phrase ‘No moral, legal, or social constraints will stand in the way’ is Zuboff’s framing — worth checking whether the patent itself claimed this or whether this is interpretive.
• XREF: connects to: Google’s Street View cars secretly harvested personal Wi-Fi payload data. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 452; Google’s scapegoating of a single engineer contradicted known internal evidence — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 457; Google’s declarations form an interdependent edifice of claims to data — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 557 (+2 more)