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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Surveillance Capitalism: The Hidden Engine of Control (mangotek.eu)

submitted 5 days ago by amirbkhan@scribe.disroot.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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“You are not the customer, you are the abandoned carcass. The real customer is the market that trades in your future behaviour.” - Shoshana Zuboff

Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism has been on my list for a long time - finally diving in. It’s unsettling, brilliant, and painfully relevant. I wrote a short piece distilling her core message and what it means for digital freedom today.

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[–] Radiantly9267@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We have to fight back and promote foss services.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago

What foss services? Who's going to pay to run it. There is a reason we have ads no one actually wants to cover the cost of running these platforms.