Surveillance Capitalism, the definition

Culture, Human Nature, Poliltics, Privacy, Psychology, Security, Sociology, Surveillance

Sur-veil-lance Cap-i-tal-ism, n.   1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; 2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modifications; 3. A rogue mutation of capitalism…

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Culture, Education, Human Nature, Poliltics, Privacy, Psychology, Sociology, Surveillance

To help you understand your new world environment, this is essential reading. It can be heavy lifting sometimes. But stick with it. It’s extremely enlightening. And I found it to be a sobering message about the unprecedented challenges we face as citizen of this American democracy, and our new world of global surveillance. Highly recommended.…

An existential threat, and our responsibility.

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Putin’s One Weapon: The ‘Intelligence State’ ,Russia’s leader has restored the role its intelligence agencies had in the Soviet era — keep citizens in check and destabilize foreign adversaries.By John SipherMr. Sipher, a former chief of station for the C.I.A., worked for more than 27 years in Russia and other parts of Europe and Asia.…

Little guy says “No” to the big guy, and a wail of anguished doom rises from an industrial giant.

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“BATON ROUGE, La. — It was a squabble over $2.9 million in property-tax breaks — small change for Exxon Mobil, a company that measures its earnings by the billions. But when the East Baton Rouge Parish school board rejected the energy giant’s rather routine request last month, the “no” vote went off like a bomb…