Topic: surveillance capitalism

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Would you trust an AI-enabled pet?

Andi Zeisler
A fan holds up a sign during a kiss cam segment in the game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Angels at Citizens Bank Park on July 18, 2025 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Images)

Yes, you can enjoy the kiss-cam scandal

Andi Zeisler
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Instagram shifts towards shopping

Nazanin Andalibi - The Conversation
Halo App and Halo Band (Amazon)

Amazon's smartwatch is always listening

Matthew Rozsa
Global network modern creative telecommunication and internet connection (Getty Images)

We're losing to surveillance capitalism

Michael Corn
A taxi driver holds a flare during a protest in front of the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Chamber during a protest calling for the approval of a local new law (PLC 78/2018), to impose new rules for rideshare providers like Uber and 99 Taxi, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 10, 2019. (MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty Images)

How Uber controls Brazil's movement

Liliana Harrington
The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Future We've Sold to Machines by William Davidow (Berrett-Koehler Publishers/Getty Images/Salon)

How to end surveillance capitalism

William Davidow, Michael S. Malone
Close-up of low-cost, web-connected personal surveillance camera from smart home company Wyze isolated on white background, August 21, 2019. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Don't trust the Internet of Things

Nicole Karlis
Aldous Huxley (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Huxley foresaw our Big Data nightmare

Ramesh Srinivasan
Le Thé à l’anglaise by Michel Barthélemy Ollivier, 1766 (Wiki Commons/Michel Barthélemy Ollivier)

The foreseer of surveillance capitalism

Roberto Simanowski
Mark Zuckerberg (Getty/Gerard Julien)

Facebook’s cynical pivot to privacy

Nicole Karlis
"A People's History of Silicon Valley" by Keith A. Spencer (Getty/zimmytws/Eyewear Publishing)

A "people's history" of Silicon Valley

Andrew O'Hehir
Live Work Work Work Die by Corey Pein; Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine; Bad Blood by John Carreyrou (Metropolitan Books/PublicAffairs/Penguin Random House/Getty)

Tech books for those who hate Big Tech

Keith A. Spencer
FILE - In this Monday, July 18, 2016, file photo, American Express credit cards are seen, in North Andover, Mass. On Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, American Express reports financial results. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File) (AP)

How manipulative are "loyalty points"?

Michael J. Armstrong - The Conversation
"A People's History of Silicon Valley" by Keith A. Spencer (Squint Books/Getty/PPAMPicture)

Silicon Valley's shift to surveillance

Keith A. Spencer
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg points to a drone flying behind him during his keynote address at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference Tuesday, April 12, 2016, in San Francisco. Zuckerberg said Facebook is releasing new tools that businesses can use to build "chatbots," or programs that can talk to customers in conversational language. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) (AP)

The internet is for corporations

Gordon Hull - The Conversation
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Your NCAA bracket: A reverse Turing Test

Brett Frischmann