Absolutely my must read for the day, week, month. If I could get anyone who hasn’t read @shoshanazuboff to give this a full read and reflection. nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opi…
Critically closes on the lobby that fought privacy as a human right for decades now pretends to care. “They have an Achilles heel: fear. They fear lawmakers who do not fear them. They fear citizens who demand a new road forward as they insist on new answers to old questions...”
This is a bipartisan concern and should be. Unchecked private power. “But power fills a void, and those once wild spaces are no longer ungoverned. Instead, they are owned and operated by private surveillance capital and governed by its iron laws.”
“Surveillance capitalism begins by unilaterally staking a claim to private human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data.”
“Surveillance capitalism’s economic imperatives were refined in the competition to sell certainty.”
And ends with this example, one of many driving my push for more radical change and full disclosure of evidence behind Facebook’s mess. It’s also why I have zero tolerance for FB defenders who blindly defend them. 
