Surveillance firms fight privacy law because regulation threatens behavioral surplus extraction

Evidence

It is important to understand that surveillance capitalists are impelled to pursue lawlessness by the logic of their own creation. Google and Facebook vigorously lobby to kill online privacy protection, limit regulations, weaken or block privacy-enhancing legislation, and thwart every attempt to circumscribe their practices because such laws are existential threats to the frictionless flow of behavioral surplus. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 337

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Privacy law fails because it guards doorways while surveillance already occupies the rooms — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1532; Privacy protections are structurally incompatible with surveillance capitalism’s accumulation logic — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 601; Behavioral surplus extraction forms the core logic of surveillance capitalism — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 70 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Privacy protections are structurally incompatible with surveillance capitalism’s accumulation logic #corroborates (0.92) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 601
• Behavioral surplus extraction forms the core logic of surveillance capitalism #corroborates (0.90) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 70
• Privacy law’s negative liberty tradition conflicts with capitalism’s data extraction drive. #corroborates (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 549
• Surveillance capitalists self-authorize the right to modify user behavior for profit #corroborates (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 933
• Regulating surveillance capitalism depends on society rejecting behavioral prediction markets #complicates (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1537
• Surveillance capitalists dismissed privacy objections as habitual aversion to innovation #complicates (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 490