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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019) provides a revealing look at just how committed companies like Google and Facebook are to tracking every one of your actions and selling that data to advertisers. Over the past few years, this business practice has become one of the most prominent worldwide, and the harmful effects it has on personal liberty and democracy are becoming more apparent.
Listed on The Guardian’s Best 100 Books of the 21st Century
About the author
Shoshana Zuboff has a PhD in social psychology from Harvard University, as well as BA in philosophy from the University of Chicago. She is currently the Charles Edward Wilson Professor emerita at Harvard Business School. Her previous books include In the Age of the Smart Machine.
Who might enjoy this content?
- Users of Google or Facebook
- People who value privacy and free will
- Anyone curious about how much personal data is being collected
