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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

by Shoshana Zuboff • 2019

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Why We Recommend It

Influential critique of how tech firms exploit personal data and reshape society, widely cited in privacy and platform power debates.

Key Ideas

  • What surveillance capitalism is and how it works

  • Behavioral manipulation via data-driven models

  • Power asymmetry between users and tech platforms

  • Regulatory and societal responses

Who Should Read This

policy wonks
privacy advocates
citizen readers

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Book Details

Difficulty

Advanced

Length

Long

Rating

4

Topics

surveillancedata ethicssociety

Publication

2019

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