Knowledge of your exact location is the most basic unit of behavioral surplus

Evidence

The rendition of your body begins quite simply with your phone. Even when your city is not “smart” or owned and operated by Google, market players with an interest in your behavior know how to find your body. For all of the elaborate ways in which surveillance capitalists labor to render reality as behavior for surplus, the simplest and most profound is their ability to know exactly where you are all the time. Your body is reimagined as a behaving object to be tracked and calculated for indexing and search. Most smartphone apps demand access to your location even when it’s not necessary for the service they provide, simply because the answer to this question is so lucrative. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 758

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the meaning and precedence of ‘location as rendered behavior’ in the surveillance capitalist operation.