Surveillance firms adapt tactics to whatever resistance incursions meet

Evidence

The company has learned to launch incursions and proceed until resistance is encountered. It then seduces, ignores, overwhelms, or simply exhausts its adversaries. Seduction means a cascade of golden enticements: unprecedented storage, access to new qualities of information, new conveniences. When necessary, the company can just as easily pivot toward harsher tactics that aim to deplete its adversaries’ time, money, and grit. There are hundreds of cases launched against Google by countries, states, groups, and individuals, and there are many more cases that never become public. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 438

Categorization

• XREF: The seduce-first, exhaust-fallback strategy parallels how powerful actors manage resistance generally — recalls the ‘overwhelm and deplete’ dynamic in information-fight literature. — connects to: Surveillance capital firms cycle through incursion, habituation, retreat, and recamouflaged pursuit. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1081; Fixating on specific firms obscures the underlying patterns of surveillance capitalism — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 757

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capital firms cycle through incursion, habituation, retreat, and recamouflaged pursuit. #expands (0.92) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1081
• Fixating on specific firms obscures the underlying patterns of surveillance capitalism #expands (0.70) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 757