Shoshana Zuboff--with Ralph Nader--discusses how Americans have lost their privacy, their freedom, and their personal autonomy. Digital technology is the MEANS of these losses. But the real CAUSE of the problem is "surveillance capitalism," which has taken control of the digital technology.
And now it's not just social-media companies. For instance, Ford Motor Company has decided to have its automobiles record, analyze, and deliver for sale information on (literally) your every move.
Intro, by KD
Zuboffs and Naders words are excerpted from a long conversation broadcast as installment 255 of The Ralph Nader Radio Hour (January 26, 2019). Many thanks to all concerned.
New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "weather") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
Shoshana Zuboff is professor emerita at Harvard Business School. Her latest book is "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (Hachette, 2019).
This installment is available--in MP3 and other formats--also on The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). The page with the download links is here: https://archive.org/download/NWN584SurveillanceCapitalism192k
More details, photos, links, & other good stuff on the show's Web site: http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com
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