The initiative follows Zuboff’s coining of the term “surveillance capitalism” — or the system that “owns and operates our global information and communication spaces” — in her ...
The internet is accused of “surveillance capitalism,” of tracking us for the sake of advertising greed. Remembering your interest in a pair of boots to show you an ad for them is hardly surveillance.
when the FTC ordered nine of the tech companies with the biggest data collection apparatus to disclose numerous aspects of how their surveillance capitalism business models worked. (The companies ...