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surveillance capitalism

noun

Etymology

Coined by Shoshana Zuboff.

Definitions

  1. An economic system based on the commodification of individuals' personal data for profit.

    • If you think that not posting these two photos does anything to surveillance capitalism or the platforms that succeed through it, that’s just not right.
    • That’s one way to understand Apple’s empty message about privacy. Tim Cook talks a big game, but at the end of the day, his company is allowing the surveillance-capitalism atrocities it claims to oppose.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for surveillance capitalism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA