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Cory Doctorow proposes breaking up big tech companies to limit digital surveillance

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In 2020, researcher Shoshana Zuboff popularized the concept of “surveillance capitalism” with the book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. A few months later, writer and activist Cory Doctorow responded with “How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism”, an essay published in the digital magazine OneZero. Doctorow argues that major technology platforms maintain their power through monopolistic control of the commercial internet. According […]

Simona Levi: “Democratic Digitalization” and the Fight for Digital Sovereignty

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Digital transformation is advancing at an unstoppable pace, yet public debate about it often remains dominated by fear or uncritical opportunism. This raises a central question: is digitalization serving citizens, or is it being built on foundations that threaten fundamental rights? It is in this context that the new essay by activist and technopolitical strategist Simona Levi emerges. Simona Levi, […]

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: Zuboff on Surveillance Capitalism

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The book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019), by Professor Emerita Shoshana Zuboff, is a fundamental analysis of the power of data-mining technologies. Published at the height of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the book emerged as a response to the collusion between corporations like Google and Facebook and government agencies to commodify human experience. Zuboff documents in the book how, […]