X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-destroy-surveillance.git/blobdiff_plain/aedf6d3050637d02ec312b0aaa5fe47b78324934..a711054fb55afa6eea9b1f8e6296ccebd446b2a2:/bookinfo.xml diff --git a/bookinfo.xml b/bookinfo.xml index bc59c3e..7257ed7 100644 --- a/bookinfo.xml +++ b/bookinfo.xml @@ -45,14 +45,20 @@ This book is available for purchase from . + + + If you find typos, error or have other corrections to the + translated text, please update on + . + - + - + Creative Commons, Some rights reserved @@ -69,4 +75,26 @@ url="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/"/>. + + + + Our devices and services gather most of the data that the NSA + mines for its surveillance project. We pay for these devices and + the services they connect to, and then we painstakingly perform + the data-entry tasks associated with logging facts about our + lives, opinions, and preferences. + + + Thanks to Big Tech, Surveillance capitalism is everywhere. This + is not because it is really good at manipulating our behaviour, + or the rogue abuse of corporate power. It is the result of + unchecked monopolism and the abusive behavior it abets. It is + the system working as intended and expected. Cory Doctorow has + written an extended critique of Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of + Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New + Frontier of Power, with a non-magical analysis of the problem + leading to a different proposal for a solution. + + +