In this article, we focus on the increasingly popular market-libertarian critique that proposes individual control, ownership, and ability to commodify one’s personal data as an answer to corporate data extraction, derivation and exploitation schemes. We critique the claims that personal data markets counterbalance corporate digital capitalism on two grounds. First, these markets do not work economically and therefore are unable to address the exploitative aspect of surveillance capitalism. Second, the notion of personal data markets functions ideologically because it reduces the critique of surveillance capitalism to the exploitation of consumers and conceals the real objective of data capitalists such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple to not (just) exploit audiences but to create worlds that create audiences.

We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both.

Podemos ter democracia ou podemos ter uma sociedade de vigilância, mas não podemos ter as duas coisas.

To understand the damage being wrought by Big Tech, we must recognize a vast, sinister matrix that not only exploits markets and human frailty, but steals our very selves as fuel for the machine. It's what Zuboff calls “surveillance capitalism" — and it’s not just Facebook, or even just the tech companies. It’s, increasingly, and broadly, the economic world we live in.

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Alternatives that keep the amazing wonders that are consumer technologies in 2020, but don’t invade our privacy, don’t spread misinformation, give us back a measure of control over our electronic lives, don’t set us up for manipulation and help rather than hurt our mental health.

Estamos presos ao capitalismo de vigilância? Esta postagem do blog descreve...

Alternativas que mantêm as maravilhas incríveis que são as tecnologias de consumo em 2020, mas não invadem nossa privacidade, não espalham desinformação, nos devolvem uma medida de controle sobre nossas vidas eletrônicas, não nos preparam para manipulação e ajudam ao invés do que prejudicar nossa saúde mental.

People love convenience and Amazon has prospered by obsessing about how to anticipate our wants before we’re even aware of them. Here is a very detailed news column on how and why Amazon collects data about you.

As pessoas adoram conveniência e a Amazon prosperou obcecada em como antecipar nossos desejos antes mesmo de estarmos cientes deles. Aqui está uma coluna de notícias muito detalhada sobre como e por que a Amazon coleta dados sobre você.

Cory Doctorow published How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - available to read for free on Medium (109min read)

Cory Doctorow publicou How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - disponível para leitura gratuitamente no Medium (leitura de 109min).