Rendition is typically unauthorized, unilateral, gluttonous, secret, and brazen

Evidence

Surveillance capitalism’s rendition practices overwhelm any sensible discussion of “opt in” and “opt out.” There are no more fig leaves. The euphemisms of consent can no longer divert attention from the bare facts: under surveillance capitalism, rendition is typically unauthorized, unilateral, gluttonous, secret, and brazen. These characteristics summarize the asymmetries of power that put the “surveillance” in surveillance capitalism. They also highlight a harsh truth: it is difficult to be where rendition is not. As industries far beyond the technology sector are lured by surveillance profits, the ferocity of the race to find and render experience as data has turned rendition into a global project of surveillance capital. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 755

Categorization

• QUESTION: Zuboff insists opt-in/opt-out debate is already moot under rendition — worth investigating how consent-discourse functions as a legitimating fig leaf rather than a real protection.
• XREF: connects to: U.S. counterterrorism euphemisms sanitized torture, rendition, and secret prisons. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2148; Rendition is the first operational step of surveillance capitalism’s dispossession project — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 754; Covert operations produce consequences publics cannot trace to their causes

Broader Connections

• U.S. counterterrorism euphemisms sanitized torture, rendition, and secret prisons. #corroborates (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2148
• Covert operations produce consequences publics cannot trace to their causes #expands (0.80)
• Rendition is the first operational step of surveillance capitalism’s dispossession project #responds-to (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 754