How Thousands of Companies Monitor, Analyze, and Influence the Lives of Billions. Report + Web Publication.
Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are
Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
Surveillance is the Business Model of the Internet: Bruce Schneier
“Surveillance is the business model of the Internet,” Schneier told attendees. “We build systems that spy on people in exchange for services.” Corporations call it marketing.
Shoshana Zuboff: Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to. The company is creating a wholly new genus of capitalism, a systemic coherent new logic of accumulation we should call surveillance capitalism. Is there nothing we can do?surveillance capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff: Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to. The company is creating a wholly new genus of capitalism, a systemic coherent new logic of accumulation we should call surveillance capitalism. Is there nothing we can do?surveillance capitalism
How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance | Hacker News
It took basically until now for the bloom to come off the rose. Think about that. For 20 years Google has been supposedly hiring the smartest guys in the room and all it took was free food, some ball pits and slides, contributing some tech to open source, and working on a handful of "moonshots" that haven't gone anywhere to keep the sheen of innovation going. And it worked. For 20 years.
Why you should bet big on privacy | TechCrunch
Ever felt like you were being watched online? You know, like when you read something about New York, and the next site you visit shows you ads for New York hotels? As it turns out, on my computer, there were more than 130 companies tracking my every move. These companies are basically engaging in mass surveillance.
Baffle Web Trackers By Obfuscating Your Online Activities
Software that spits out misinformation about what you're actually doing on the web is a fascinating development in our relationship to online surveillance.
We Need A Massive Surveillance Program (Idle Words)
I am a privacy activist who has been riding a variety of high horses about the dangers of permanent, ubiquitous data collection since 2012.
How Surveillance Changes Behavior: A Restaurant Workers Case Study
How does surveillance affect behavior? A new study of employee monitoring software in restaurants suggests that when employees know their actions are being watched, it can significantly alter behavior — and increase sales.
Government Surveillance and Internet Search Behavior
This paper displays data from the US and its top 40 trading partners on the search volume of select keywords from before and after the surveillance revelations
Information for business and organisations
Find out what your organisation must do to comply with the GDPR and learn how you can help individuals to exercise their data protection rights.
Information for business and organisations
Find out what your organisation must do to comply with the GDPR and learn how you can help individuals to exercise their data protection rights.
A Starter Guide to Protecting Your Data From Hackers and Corporations
Hackers. AI data scrapes. Government surveillance. Yeah, thinking about where to start when it comes to protecting your online privacy can be overwhelming. Here’s a simple guide for you—and anyone who claims they have nothing to hide.
Tidying Up When We Have No Control over Our Digital Lives
Never-ending notifications. Pull-to-refresh rewards. There's no escape from surveillance capitalism.
Surveillance and the Internet of Things | Hacker News
As Bruce says, the real issue now is not surveillance or even information, but power. Who gets to watch whom, and (of course) who watches the watchers?
How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.
