In the second part of this extended interview with Real Media, Professor Bev Skeggs speaks about surveillance capitalism.
With the fast roll-out of "pre-emptive surveillance" gadgets, the internet of things, and wearable tech, we are entering an age where huge non-transparent corporations, paying little or no tax, are supplying information to employers and insurance companies to control, monetise and rate every action we take.
Regulation so far has failed to foresee any of this, and we need to start waking up to what is happening and making democratic choices to reign it in.
EnochoftheNine
Great work. Fascism won. We’re all somewhat doomed.
uradragon
We’re somewhat more informed. Who we battle becomes more clear. Suck in some air soldier and dive back in.
NOWHERE PEOPLE
It’s not Fascism. Amazon is Jeff Bezos. Jeff Bezos is a liberal and a MAJOR donator to the Democratic Party. This is the globalist neo liberal consensus and it loves to use the fascist slur on dissenting voices.
Chris Egbuonu
“we are subsidizing our own exploitation” …that truth pierced deep
Great interview
thx
Freak Unique
proper insight. proper analysis. proper news. thank you for helping me and others see straight. keep up the good work guys.
Norman Kelley
She’s the second in a few days that Ive come across who’s talking about this subject: surveillance capitalism. Shoshana Zuboff is the other one and the author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
Laird Garvin
She is not the second you have come across — she is the second which was fed to you due to surveillance capitalism.
Cotictimmy
Our own Bristish Shoshana Zuboff – Great Lady. Always ask – ‘Who benerits MOST?’ I think she’s spot on – most of us are gradually being manoevered into the postition of slaves with no independence. The old adge from A Level Economics “The Customer Is King” is well on its way to beiing totally reversed. Unfortunately I think the Coroporate lobbybists have bought the democratic organs. (Olly Robbins off to J.P. Morgan – Goldman Sachs in charge of the Bank Of England and the ECB.)
villebooks
Yes, she’s a lady with a brilliant mind!
John West
The more you allow AI into your life, the more you become subservient to corporate power and big governments.
K T
Something to consider Great content but terrible sound,or sound editing can hear what the reporter is asking.
NOWHERE PEOPLE
People get punished NOW by precisely this system for publicly holding dissenting views on mass immigration. Are you guys against that or would you make an exception for so called “nazis” and “bigots”?
Muonium
Ancient dried up communist crones REEEEEEING about phones. yawn.
Ron Tarro
Correct diagnosis. Tragically wrong solutions.
Martin Irving
I take it you have the “correct” solutions?
Larkinchance
It’s a bit clunky but I like my ankle bracelet…
Martin Irving
Yes, we are seeing capitalism at its fundamental character – cold, heartless, faceless, (emotionless) uncompromising, ruthless, utmost efficiency. It’s a mismatch with the human organism. It is literally the antithesis of what humans are.
Bezos and Zuckerberg should know better or at least show better insight and greater empathy and compassion.
Igor St.George's Butler
If it turns out that the data becomes more valuable for destroying peoples’ lives and taking a cut of the auction profits from the scavenged remains, what is there to prevent that from becoming business as usual? It is much easier to calculate destructive algorhythms than beneficial ones. Things tend to take the path of least resistance when big piles of scarce resources are up for grabs. I don’t understand this optimistic view of tech dependence. Nothing but a very hard lesson will come of it.
Sandra Cunningham
This sounds crazy, actual bankers and accountants do these jobs. Networks are irrelevant, financial data is too sensitive for tech companies to have anything to with it.
You Know Who...
She is right on …all of her astute thoughts and words will come to pass or are planned. Get rid of apple devices, stop wearing them ok? buy mic-block for all of your devices which plugs into audio opening on cell phones, laptops, pcs, etc…so microphone will not be able to monitor or listen in to your conversations.
You Know Who...
So remember the elite ilk 1% parasitic, psychopathic crazy owners think wrongly there is too many of us so want to kill us, punish us for not being the perfect consumer-producer. We are useless eaters to them by monitizing everything we even need to live as a human being. Do you research and study real history of eugenics.. all eugenic based from decades, centuries ago…
John West
The more we allow AI into our lives, the more we become subservient to corporate power and big governments.