Hi Cash Lovers,
Harvard University Professor Shoshana Zuboff's ground-breaking best seller, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power describes the pervasive commodification of our personal information.
Professor Zuboff says the current world economic order is "Surveillance Capitalism" which she says is “an expropriation of critical human rights that is best understood as a coup from above”.
Global tech companies gather our data, not just to predict our preferences, but to modify our behaviour with disastrous consequences for democracy and freedom. Advertisers don't just want to know our preferences they want to shape them.
“With so little left that could be commodified, the last virgin territory was private human experience.”
The great power struggle of the twentieth century was between capital and labour but now "surveillance capitalists are pitted against the entirety of our societies in a bloodless battle for power and profit as violent as any the world has seen," said Shoshana Zuboff.
As a result of her lifetime of research, Professor Zuboff is calling on all of us to demand real changes to protect our democratic rights and freedoms.
"If we are to bend the arc of the digital back toward the light, we need public education, democratic mobilization, and political leadership.
"We need the creativity and courage to revitalize our frameworks of human rights, laws, and regulations for a new epoch. This next decade is pivotal. It’s all hands on deck."
Every digital transaction you make adds to the data that can be used to shape your behaviour. The main weapon ordinary people have for protecting our financial privacy is cash.
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