Surveillance capitalism’s dangers exceed privacy and monopoly concerns

Evidence

I have suggested that the dangers of surveillance capitalism cannot be fully grasped through either the lens of privacy or of monopoly. In Chapter 6 I offer a new way of thinking about danger. The threats we face are even more fundamental as surveillance capitalists take command of the essential questions that define knowledge, authority, and power in our time: Who knows? Who decides? Who decides who decides? — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 546

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘who decides who decides’ question echoes the sovereignty literature of thinkers like Foucault on power and knowledge. — connects to: Surveillance capitalism threatens the inward capacities that sustain social bonds — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1566; Surveillance capitalism is collapsing the distinction between private and public life — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1504; Surveillance capitalism functions as a profoundly antidemocratic social force — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1643 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism threatens the inward capacities that sustain social bonds #corroborates (0.82) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1566
• Surveillance capitalism threatens human sovereignty over life and authorship of experience #corroborates (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1650
• Surveillance capitalism functions as a profoundly antidemocratic social force #corroborates (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1643
• Surveillance capitalism is collapsing the distinction between private and public life #qualifies (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1504