The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019

Key Facts or Insights from the Book

1. Surveillance capitalism is a new economic system that exploits human experience for free raw material for commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales.
2. Surveillance capitalism was pioneered by Google and later adopted by Facebook and others, it has become the dominant form of capitalism in the digital age.
3. Surveillance capitalists have amassed unprecedented power by exploiting the digital footprint left by users on the internet.
4. There is a significant loss of privacy, with surveillance capitalists knowing more about individuals than they may know about themselves.
5. Surveillance capitalism poses a threat to democracy...

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