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We thought that we were
searching Google; we had no idea that Google was searching us.
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I’m really worried about the
future of the internet because I think we risk losing the awesome
potential, and we risk turning it into something that’s just kind of a cross between a shopping mall and a
surveillance state.
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Sue Gardner
executive director of
the Wikimedia Foundation |
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private
human experience as free raw material for translation into
behavioral data. These data are then computed and packaged as
prediction products and sold
into behavioral futures markets.
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Shoshana Zuboff
American author and scholar |
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Lost
in the legalistic view is any sense of the ethical consequences of
going through life under constant surveillance. We don’t consider that
being watched, parsed and classified may be antithetical to human
dignity. Our blindness to privacy’s moral dimension suits many social
media networks. They can address privacy concerns through arcane contractual language and endless checkboxes, reducing the subject to a matter of consumer choice.
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Siva Vaidhyanathan
University of Virginia
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