“You are not the customer, you are the abandoned carcass. The real customer is the market that trades in your future behaviour.” - Shoshana Zuboff
Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism has been on my list for a long time - finally diving in. It’s unsettling, brilliant, and painfully relevant. I wrote a short piece distilling her core message and what it means for digital freedom today.
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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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