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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Within surveillance capitalism, every aspect of the human experience is transformed into data and sold to many businesses for a wide range of purposes.
Chapter 3: Earlier shifts in capitalism loosened regulations and reshaped attitudes for the online era today.
Chapter 4: Initial concerns over online privacy were set aside instead for looser surveillance laws.
Chapter 5: Google’s Street View and Glass projects illustrate public outrage that often eventually becomes acceptance.
Chapter 6: Surveillance capitalism is growing increasingly granular in its data collection.
Chapter 7: Surveillance capitalists aim to pinpoint key moments of sensitivity in order to raise the likelihood of purchases and behavior modification.
Chapter 8: The intrusive, all-controlling future of surveillance capitalism need not be seen as ever inevitable.
Chapter 9: Surveillance capitalism isn’t inevitable, and people aren’t ready and willing to give up privacy today either for mere convenience.
Description
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
Who Should Listen
- Users of Google or Facebook
- People who value privacy and free will
- Anyone curious about how much personal data is being collected