Reponder



We thought that we were searching Google; we had no idea that Google was searching us.

 
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.

Sue Gardner
executive director of
the Wikimedia Foundation
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.

Shoshana Zuboff
American author and scholar

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.

Siva Vaidhyanathan
University of Virginia


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