In an era where personal data has become a currency, Cory Doctorow's How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism offers a compelling and urgent exploration of the mechanisms behind surveillance capitalism and the pathways toward reclaiming privacy and autonomy. This work critically examines the pervasive influence of tech giants who harvest user data to fuel an economy of behavioral prediction and manipulation, and it proposes actionable strategies to dismantle these systems.

• Surveillance capitalism thrives on commodifying personal data to predict and modify behavior for profit.
• The current digital economy incentivizes invasive data collection practices that erode...
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