![]() ![]() “Whether you are complaining about your acne or engaging in political debate on Facebook, searching for a recipe or sensitive health information on Google, ordering laundry soap or taking photos of your nine-year-old, smiling or thinking angry thoughts, watching TV or doing wheelies in the parking lot, all of it is raw material for this burgeoning text.” “The result is that both the world and our lives are pervasively rendered as information,” Zuboff writes. Even if you’ve followed the news items and historical trends that gird Zuboff’s analysis, her telling takes what look like privacy overreaches and data blunders, and recasts them as the intentional movements of a global system designed to violate you as a revenue stream. ![]() Cover: Public Affairs BooksAn unavoidable takeaway of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” is, essentially, that everything is even worse than you thought. ![]()
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