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Surveillance Capitalism and the Erosion of Informational Privacy

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Surveillance capitalism's foundational practice is appropriating human experience—our daily activities, conversations, and even moods—as free raw material for producing predictive behavioral data, which is then used to shape our future choices and sold to advertisers and other clients.

Why this is interesting

You know that feeling when an ad follows you around the internet after you merely mentioned something aloud? That's not a glitch—it's the engine of a new economic order that treats your life as raw material.