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@PaulaToThePeople This is nothing different than "surveillance capitalism" as defined by Shoshana Zuboff. Capitalism leads to fascism under certain circumstances, both are very compatible. Ads, more ads etc., is not "hyper capitalism", just basic capitalism. Capitalism is bad enough and current forms of fascism are using it very naturally and very efficiency.

1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial
practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; 2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of
goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification; 3. A rogue
mutation of capitalism marked by concentrations of wealth, knowledge, and power unprecedented in
human history; 4. The foundational framework of a surveillance economy; 5. As significant a threat to
human nature in the twenty-first century as industrial capitalism was to the natural world in the nineteenth
and twentieth; 6. The origin of a new instrumentarian power that asserts dominance over society and
presents startling challenges to market democracy; 7. A movement that aims to impose a new collective
order based on total certainty; 8. An expropriation of critical human rights that is best understood as a
coup from above: an overthrow of the people’s sovereignty. — 1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; 2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification; 3. A rogue mutation of capitalism marked by concentrations of wealth, knowledge, and power unprecedented in human history; 4. The foundational framework of a surveillance economy; 5. As significant a threat to human nature in the twenty-first century as industrial capitalism was to the natural world in the nineteenth and twentieth; 6. The origin of a new instrumentarian power that asserts dominance over society and presents startling challenges to market democracy; 7. A movement that aims to impose a new collective order based on total certainty; 8. An expropriation of critical human rights that is best understood as a coup from above: an overthrow of the people’s sovereignty.

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 23 hours ago

@jsene
> This is nothing different than "surveillance capitalism" as defined by Shoshana Zuboff

There seems to be a lot of confusion about Zuboff's phrase. As I understand it, what it's referencing is that surveillance used to be a state function, and business people had as much incentive as anyone else to criticise and limit it. Then surveillance advertising was invented, and state-corporate surveillance merged by the Patriot Act, PRIMS, etc.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

@PaulaToThePeople

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@smallcircles@social.coop · 3 days ago

Flipboard has the kind of cookie consent wall of sites I typically say "No thanks, I'll pass by" to. 🤷

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@smallcircles@social.coop · 3 days ago

To me these complex dialogs where you have to figure out the minimum extraction of your #PII screams #SurveillanceCapitalism while I am only out to admire the creative work of a fine artist that drew my attention via the fediverse.

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Brian Sletten

@bsletten@mastodon.social · 6 days ago

Hey, maybe don’t verify yourself on LinkedIn. What an absolute shitshow:

#privacy #linkedin #surveillancecapitalism

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

THE LOCAL STACK

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over.

I wanted a blue badge on LinkedIn. To get it, I gave a US company my passport, my face, and my biometric data. Then I read the fine print.

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@smallcircles@social.coop · 6 days ago

Ha, #LinkedIn verification uses the creepy #Persona service. And a slew of other #SurveillanceCapitalism nightmare shebang..

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098245

THE LOCAL STACK

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over.

I wanted a blue badge on LinkedIn. To get it, I gave a US company my passport, my face, and my biometric data. Then I read the fine print.

Brian Sletten

@bsletten@mastodon.social · 6 days ago

Hey, maybe don’t verify yourself on LinkedIn. What an absolute shitshow:

#privacy #linkedin #surveillancecapitalism

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

THE LOCAL STACK

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over.

I wanted a blue badge on LinkedIn. To get it, I gave a US company my passport, my face, and my biometric data. Then I read the fine print.

tante

@tante@tldr.nettime.org · 2 weeks ago

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116082694984669549

I am just so tired of this "AI" shit. Truly. Not just the extra maintenance burden on my but the constant discussions that lead nowhere. I can keep making the same arguments against using "AI" for anything relevant from here till the cows come home but it's not gonna change people's opinion. Because they are "on AI" or their bosses force it upon them or whatever.

But honestly. It's all been said. Neither does the tech change significantly (regardless of what the boosters tell you) nor do the other facts at hand, the brain and skill atrophy, the exploitation, the ecological impact, etc. etc. etc.

Dunno. It's hard to keep doing this whole "keep making your point and maybe some people will change their mind thing" when the facts are all on the table and people just have made decisions I find morally questionable.

Maybe I am just tired. Will keep doing the same shit tomorrow. Keep running against that concrete wall hoping that it will somehow crumble.

Open Risk

@openrisk@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

@tante

"AI" is no different (in this respect) from the adtech surveillance thing. People screamed and screamed about the risks to society. Zuboff wrote years ago the definitive book on #surveillancecapitalism but the odious engine is still more or less intact, printing billions of profits every quarter, buying the souls of regulators, politicians etc.

Except... there are a few cracks here and there. You never know when they might grow and the whole damn immoral construct gets washed away.

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@cs@mastodon.sdf.org · 2 weeks ago

"Websites that use pixels send data about every single visitor, so it doesn't matter if you don't have a TikTok account."

#TikTok #Privacy #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260210-tiktok-is-tracking-you-even-if-you-dont-use-the-app-heres-how-to-stop-it

TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app. Here's how to stop it

TikTok is growing its data harvesting empire, and avoiding the app won’t protect you – but some easy steps can keep you safe.

@cs@mastodon.sdf.org · 2 weeks ago

"Websites that use pixels send data about every single visitor, so it doesn't matter if you don't have a TikTok account."

#TikTok #Privacy #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260210-tiktok-is-tracking-you-even-if-you-dont-use-the-app-heres-how-to-stop-it

TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app. Here's how to stop it

TikTok is growing its data harvesting empire, and avoiding the app won’t protect you – but some easy steps can keep you safe.

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Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson

@josh@vickerson.me · 3 weeks ago

If a software vendor can impose sweeping policy changes on “your community” against your will, it's not actually yours.

#Discord #SelfHost #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism

Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson

@josh@vickerson.me · 3 weeks ago

If a software vendor can impose sweeping policy changes on “your community” against your will, it's not actually yours.

#Discord #SelfHost #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism

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Patrick Leavy

@patrickleavy@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

If you're quite far along in your journey to abandon #BigTech then you'll be considering flashing your phone with a #deGoogled OS.

We've listed the phone models that work with the easy, plug n play web-based installers, so you can avoid the gnarly manual method:

https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/mobileos.html

(Scroll down to The Easy List)

#privacy #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism

Rebel Tech Alliance

Patrick Leavy

@patrickleavy@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

If you're quite far along in your journey to abandon #BigTech then you'll be considering flashing your phone with a #deGoogled OS.

We've listed the phone models that work with the easy, plug n play web-based installers, so you can avoid the gnarly manual method:

https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/mobileos.html

(Scroll down to The Easy List)

#privacy #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism

Rebel Tech Alliance

Wendy M. Grossman

@wendyg@mastodon.xyz · 4 weeks ago

@onepict It's an interesting point. I had not previously thought of the rise of Facebook et. al as a failure of the open web, but of course it's an *induced* failure, as companies saw a more profitable opportunity in locking people in.

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

@onepict@chaos.social · 4 weeks ago

@wendyg exactly, there's a reason I wrote this for fluconf this week.

We're valuable both as a userbase to manipulate as well as a huge amount of data for #SurveillanceCapitalism to use and abuse

https://www.onepict.com/digitalpoppet.html

#DigitalPoppets

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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

@onepict@chaos.social · 2 years ago

We do need to ask these questions if we want to know why Mom and Pop stores just set up on Facebook or other hard to move from silos.

Where they pay for access to ad networks for the potential of impressions on the web via #DigitalPoppets

Why the ecosystem of web development firms point small business to integrate with #SurveillanceCapitalism to help small businesses have a Storefront on the web.

It's more than ease of set up. The web isn't really there to serve our communities.

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Patrick Leavy

@patrickleavy@mastodon.social · 4 weeks ago

Will you take the red pill, and follow the #BigTechWalkout 2026 programme - completing your move away from #bigtech products?

https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2026/

Or will you take the blue pill and go back to billionaire algorithm simulation?

#privacy #control #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism

The Rebel Blog

The Big Tech Walkout 2026

Here is the full detailed programme for the Big Tech Walkout 2026 - bookmark it so you can refer back to it over the year

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daesorin

@daesorin@hachyderm.io · 4 weeks ago

Microslop at it again 😂. They have finally turned Teams into a literal digital ankle monitor. The new update exposes your real-time location and the specific Wi-Fi network you are connected to.

So if you are at a cafe trying to escape the office noise, your boss sees "Starbucks_WiFi" instantly. The "work from anywhere" dream is now just a panopticon. They claim it is "optional," but we all know that just means "mandatory if you want to keep your job."

Proprietary softwares are now morphing from tools to snitches.

Read the horror story here: https://ztechtalk.com/microsoft-teams
#Microsoft #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #RemoteWork #FOSS

RIP Privacy: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks Your Real-Time Location | ZTechTalk

Microsoft just handed bosses the ultimate tracking tool. Here is why the 'cover for me' excuse is officially dead and how 365 monitors you.

Patrick Leavy

@patrickleavy@mastodon.social · 4 weeks ago

Will you take the red pill, and follow the #BigTechWalkout 2026 programme - completing your move away from #bigtech products?

https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2026/

Or will you take the blue pill and go back to billionaire algorithm simulation?

#privacy #control #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism

The Rebel Blog

The Big Tech Walkout 2026

Here is the full detailed programme for the Big Tech Walkout 2026 - bookmark it so you can refer back to it over the year