US law’s surveillance-capitalist allegiance may not be permanent

Evidence

The smart money says that US law will never abandon its allegiance to the surveillance capitalists over the people. But the next decades may once again prove that the smart money can be wrong. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 190

Categorization

• QUESTION: What structural conditions could shift US law away from surveillance-capitalist allegiance — a sanctions regime, a scandal, a populist backlash? Worth watching.
• XREF: connects to: US courts interpret the First Amendment to protect data gathering as corporate free speech. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 550; FTC enforcement against surveillance capitalism cannot succeed because market-imperative mandates trump compliance — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 499; Surveillance capitalism threatens novel rights like the right to the future tense — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 167 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalists parallel Gilded Age industrialists in exploiting law to escape constraints #corroborates (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 341
• Surveillance capitalism threatens novel rights like the right to the future tense #complicates (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 167
• Privacy protections are structurally incompatible with surveillance capitalism’s accumulation logic #complicates (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 601