Key Facts or Insights from the Book
- Surveillance capitalism is a new economic system that exploits human experience for free raw material for commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales.
- Surveillance capitalism was pioneered by Google and later adopted by Facebook and others, it has become the dominant form of capitalism in the digital age.
- Surveillance capitalists have amassed unprecedented power by exploiting the digital footprint left by users on the internet.
- There is a significant loss of privacy, with surveillance capitalists knowing more about individuals than they may know about themselves.
- Surveillance capitalism poses a threat to democracy...