{"id":12181,"date":"2019-04-13T10:01:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T14:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=12181"},"modified":"2019-04-13T10:01:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T14:01:29","slug":"surveillance-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/surveillance-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance Capitalism?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_2019-04-13-Meet-Surveillance-Capitalism-Our-Terrifying-New-Economic-Order-1-1024x286.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_2019-04-13-Meet-Surveillance-Capitalism-Our-Terrifying-New-Economic-Order-1-1024x286.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_2019-04-13-Meet-Surveillance-Capitalism-Our-Terrifying-New-Economic-Order-1-300x84.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_2019-04-13-Meet-Surveillance-Capitalism-Our-Terrifying-New-Economic-Order-1-768x215.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_2019-04-13-Meet-Surveillance-Capitalism-Our-Terrifying-New-Economic-Order-1.png 1209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The Federalist<\/strong>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/paulrowanbrian\/\">Paul Rowan Brian<\/a> &#8212; April 12, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Advanced technology isn\u2019t just getting out of control, it\u2019s being  used as a means of control\u2014big time. That\u2019s the key message of Shoshana  Zuboff\u2019s new book <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1610395697\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thefede01-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1610395697&amp;linkId=0d930b5c193c620be94622043f5063f4\"><em>The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight For A Human Future at the New Frontier of Power<\/em><\/a><em>, where  the Harvard professor emerita and business analyst argues that Big Tech  is determined to fully commodify, control, and co-opt human experiences  to provide raw behavioral data that sustains its massive profits and  power.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Put simply, Zuboff contends that surveillance capitalism is the  constant tracking, analysis, and attempted modification of human  behavior for the profit of tech giants who trade in what she terms  \u201cbehavioral futures markets,\u201d places where knowing what people are very  likely to do tomorrow or next year is of enormous value to those trying  to sell a product or service.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>Surveillance capitalism renders human behavior by tracking, measuring,  and analyzing from your smartphone to your smart home\u2014from browsing the  internet to private messages or emails with a colleague. This relatively  new, dominant force intrudes through cookies and privacy permissions  that in most cases must be accepted for a service to work properly or at  all, including, for example, many smart home security systems.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/04\/12\/meet-surveillance-capitalism-our-terrifying-new-economic-order\/\">https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/04\/12\/meet-surveillance-capitalism-our-terrifying-new-economic-order\/<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federalist, by Paul Rowan Brian &#8212; April 12, 2019 Excerpt: Advanced technology isn\u2019t just getting out of control, it\u2019s being used as a means of control\u2014big time. That\u2019s the key message of Shoshana Zuboff\u2019s new book The Age of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/surveillance-capitalism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12183,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12181\/revisions\/12183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}