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Fighting for a Human Future in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
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Fighting for a Human Future in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Do we need new rights to protect us from big data surveillance?

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Jim Buie
May 08, 2021
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A surveillance society, or total information awareness of the citizenry, is a hidden desire of profit-making corporations seeking social and political manipulation and behavior controls. New empires, based largely in Silicon Valley and other tech capitals of the globe, have sprung up. They have “engineered a fundamentally anti-democratic epistemic coup …

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