Privacy controversies have not slowed the global expansion of surveillance-capitalist services

Evidence

This helps to explain why, as one 2015 article celebrating the history of Google Maps observes, “Google Maps was attracting all sorts of privacy controversies… people were freaked out.… But that doesn’t mean Street View has been tamped down as a project. It’s now available in 65 of Google Maps’ 200-some countries.” — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 469

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why has public privacy outrage so consistently failed to curb the expansion of surveillance services? The 2015 claim that Street View kept growing despite widespread ‘freaked out’ users begs for a theory of why protest fails.
• XREF: connects to: Privacy remains indispensable despite data colonialism’s corrosive effects — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 546; Government-tech company surveillance collaboration is a global feature, not a Chinese anomaly — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 212; Privacy protections are structurally incompatible with surveillance capitalism’s accumulation logic — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 601 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Privacy protections are structurally incompatible with surveillance capitalism’s accumulation logic #complicates (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 601