How much is too much?
Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff wrote a monumental book about the new economic order that is alarming. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," reveals how the biggest tech companies deal with our data. How do we regain control of our data? What is surveillance capitalism? In this documentary, Zuboff takes the lid off Google and Facebook and reveals a merciless form of capitalism in which no natural resources, but the citizen itself, serves as a raw material. How can citizens regain control of their data?===================================================================================https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL4bz3QXWEo
When should enough have been enough? The part (at 7:30) about a woman being pregnant and a supermarket chain knowing before she did is an eye opener. Shoulld be a brain opener too.
Interestingly, one of our valued regulars posted something similar some time back.
@icyfroth wrote:
Film director Oliver Stone has says Pokémon Go is a “new level of invasion” of privacy that could lead to “totalitarianism”.
Oliver Stone has a history of taking on the establishment, and questioning historical and social narratives that society has been conditioned to accept as truth.
While promoting his new movie about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden at Comic-Con International, the hollywood filmmaker was asked about security concerns associated with Pokémon Go.
Stone noted that companies were actually using the game to carry out“surveillance capitalism” by monitoring people’s behaviour.
Stone said…
“It’s not funny. What’s happening is a new level of invasion.
“The profits are enormous here for places like Google. They’ve invested a huge amount of money in data mining what you are buying, what you like, your behaviour.
“It’s what some people call surveillance capitalism.”
I'm surprised that more folks didn't post on her thread. Don't we care?
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@4channel wrote:
What you have described has little to do with someone wanting to safeguard their privacy and put value on privacy. It has a lot to do with someone suffering mental issues.
@lyndal1838 wrote:
So everyone who obeyed the law and stayed home alone during the many covid lockdowns over the last 12 months was suffering from mental issues?
Wow, there must be tens of thousands of us law abiding citizens who are completely mad.
My dear lyndal1838, are you for real. What on earth have the people staying home alone during the covid lockdowns got to do with this discussion about privacy? It's obvious that the_great_she_elephant was attempting to counter me with suggestions of eccentric recluses with mental issues and rotting corpses, making out they were somehow connected to a concept of privacy. LOL and now you're trying this angle??
Just in case you are for real, well it's obvious that the Howard Hughes type of recluse is a whole different thing to people being forced into lockdown.
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Actually, it could be argued that in the state of Victoria that the people who spoke out against a certain dictator premier and his (some may even say Khmer Rouge wannabe styled tactics) had more thinking going on upstairs than those who bowed to his will. But that's a whole different discussion.
Postage stamp size for when and if a certain state becomes the exclusive domain or principality of Swerdna Nad
Ok lyndal1838, why is it so hard to accept that people who treasure privacy may be on to something good.? Have you listened to or watched the clips by Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff?
