Privacy law fails because it guards doorways while surveillance already occupies the rooms

Evidence

It’s the wall, not the tunnels, that requires our attention. So far US privacy laws have failed to keep pace with the march of instrumentarianism. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1532

Categorization

• DEFINE: The ‘wall not tunnels’ slogan frames why procedural privacy fixes are structurally insufficient.
• XREF: connects to: Privacy protections are structurally incompatible with surveillance capitalism’s accumulation logic — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 601; Surveillance firms fight privacy law because regulation threatens behavioral surplus extraction — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 337; Surveillance policy was compromised by the sentry guards meant to enforce it — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1700 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Privacy policies function as surveillance policies in practice #corroborates (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 782
• Privacy protections are structurally incompatible with surveillance capitalism’s accumulation logic #corroborates (0.82) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 601
• Surveillance firms fight privacy law because regulation threatens behavioral surplus extraction #expands (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 337
• Surveillance policy was compromised by the sentry guards meant to enforce it #complicates (0.75) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1700
• Privacy is not eroded but redistributed to surveillance capital #corroborates (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 284