Quotes that stick out in
None of Your Business: The rise of surveillance capitalism
to us:
“A new company called Realeyes plans to surveil our facial expressions as we watch advertisements, interpreting our emotions in real time.”
“To mine dark data, Google, Facebook, and others are developing smart homes and wearable devices, self-driving cars, drones, and augmented reality. They’re even striving to monitor the body’s inner workings through digestible sensors and to map a person’s inner life through so-called emotion analytics.”
“Today, companies of all kinds are trying to get into the game. Samsung’s smart TV records private conversations in living rooms across the country; the latest Roomba vacuum maps its users’ floor plans; the CEO of Allstate Insurance hopes, in his own words, to ‘sell this information we get from people driving around to various people and capture some additional profit source.'”
Bullet List of Discussion Topics
- Consumer Product Facade
- No longer influential, just consumer behavior predictions
- Invading our privacy for the sake of making money
- Facebook boasts a “loyalty prediction” service that identifies “individuals who are ‘at risk’ of shifting their brand allegiance” and prompts advertisers to intervene swiftly
- All comes down to greed
Noah’s thoughts elaborated,” People are unaware of the scope of the surveillance that is aimed at them. We are lured by the shiny and exciting features of a new smart tv, but in reality the tv has been tailor made to distract you from the truth. Although such things might truly offer new exciting features for the consumer, it also offers new exciting features for the company that made it. Why do you think that so many new products that are released will refuse to run without connection to the internet?”
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