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“They’re not exploiting data. They’re exploiting people.” @Snowden.

Out tomorrow: Major new @amnesty tech report on how the business model of @Google & @Facebook threatens human rights.
#SurveillanceCapitalism #surveillance #Facebook #Google
Email press@amnesty.org for a copy.

“We now create more data every 48hrs than we did from the dawn of civilization to 2003.” @RVAwonk

“Forget the cliché ’if it’s free, you’re the product.’ You’re the abandoned carcass. The product derives fm the surplus ripped from yr life” @shoshanazuboff https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/11/19/features/nearly-3-billion-people-have-lost-their-freedom-name-ensuring-public-order-now

Nearly 3 billion people have lost their freedom in the name of

Currently, nearly three billion people — 89 per cent of internet users — are under surveillance by advanced social media monitoring systems used by governments and law enforcement agencies, according

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/11/19/features/nearly-3-billion-people-have-lost-their-freedom-name-ensuring-public-order-now

Facebook & Google have chosen a specific surveillance-business model. The technology behind the internet isn’t incompatible with our rights, but the model is.

It’s time to wrest back this vital public space fm these unaccountable Silicon Valley companies. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/

Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance of billions of people is a systemic threat to human...

There needs to be a radical transformation of Facebook and Google's surveillance business model as it poses a systemic threat to human rights,

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/

"Google & Facebook have established control over the primary channels that most of the world relies on to engage with the internet. These platforms are no longer ‘optional’ in many societies, & using them is a necessary part of participating in modern life." @TanyaOCarroll

There are alternative social media sites. @telegram & @signalapp are alternatives to WhatsApp & there are search engines other than Google such as @DuckDuckGo, @Yahoo, @bing, @yandexcom @StartPageSearch, @Ecosia, Swisscow, Gibiru, http://Ask.com (formerly AskJeeves) @aoc

"The business model is predicated first & foremost on the extraction of vast amounts of data about people in order to create highly personalized profiles 4 advertising. This sets the companies on a never-ending quest to expand their data empires & thereby profits." @TanyaOCarroll

"These world-straddling corporations have amassed more data than @GCHQ & @NSAGov with even less accountability & oversight.

Let’s not forget that this serves the intelligence agencies too. As @rydermc put it: 'Why stock your fridge when you live next door to Sainsburys?'" TOC.

"This isn’t the internet people signed up for when these platforms started out.

Google & Facebook chipped away at our privacy over time. They did so as their power grew & as people became dependent on them.

In a competitive market, internet users would not tolerate this." TOC.

"People are forced into making a Faustian pact. Opt in to pervasive tracking & profiling, where your data can be weaponized & used to influence you. Or opt out & forego the benefits of the modern world.

This is NOT a legitimate choice. It's an assault on privacy." @TanyaOCarroll

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