Neoliberal ideology framed privacy as a competitively traded good to justify deregulation
Evidence
This neoliberal legacy was a windfall for the new surveillance capitalists. As another legal scholar, Frank Pasquale, observed, it produced a model that treated privacy as a competitive good, assuming that “consumers” engage only with services that offer the level of privacy they seek. Regulatory interference, according to this view, would only undermine competitive diversity. It also credits the “notice and consent” model—click-wrap and its “sadistic” relatives—as accurate signals of individual privacy choices. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 348
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the privacy-as-competitive-good model and the notice-and-consent doctrine that legitimized data extraction.
- XREF: The notice-and-consent click-wrap critique connects to the reader’s understanding of behavioral surplus being harvested with nominal consent. — connects to: Neoliberal legal scholars opposed constitutional privacy rights and favored private contracts instead; Neoliberalism supplied sheltering ideologies that surveillance capitalism exploited — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1923; Neoliberal anti-regulation ideology and the war on terror jointly sheltered surveillance capitalism from scrutiny — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1079 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberalism supplied sheltering ideologies that surveillance capitalism exploited
#expands(0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1923 - Neoliberals restrict freedom to negative freedom to shield market epistemology from scrutiny
#complicates(0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 169 - Neoliberal anti-regulation ideology and the war on terror jointly sheltered surveillance capitalism from scrutiny
#expands(0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1079