From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 22:13:23 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Simpler back cover text. X-Git-Tag: nb-printed-2021-01-24~53 X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-destroy-surveillance.git/commitdiff_plain/6539dc03c1dc2fcdd2d7c13688aea232ad1b11bd?ds=sidebyside Simpler back cover text. --- diff --git a/bookinfo.xml b/bookinfo.xml index 7257ed7..9455c93 100644 --- a/bookinfo.xml +++ b/bookinfo.xml @@ -78,22 +78,9 @@ - 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. + The Science Fiction author, journalist and technology activist + Cory Doctorow have a look at what really is behind "Surveillance + Capitalism" and what should be done to stop it.