Today's MUST WATCH: "Klein, Zuboff, and Browne will unpack the dangers of surveillance capitalism — and how we can rise to this crisis and create a fair and equitable future." @NaomiAKlein @shoshanazuboff and @wewatchwatchers in conversation! https://theintercept.com/2020/09/11/coronavirus-black-lives-matter-surveillance/

. @shoshanazuboff begins by pointing out record gains for big tech companies. A sobering reminder that the 'moment of reckoning' in The Discourse About Big Tech is not necessarily a real reckoning

Zuboff: The pandemic has been great for extracting user data. And civil unrest has also produced institutional data surveillance contracts.

Somewhat awkward framing of this summer's massive mobilization for Black liberation as 'manufactured' but I get her point about the data surveillance contracts

Zuboff summarizing the situation re: the shift to online learning and the implications for surveillance capitalism. Notes Feb 2020 Google Education was being sued for data mining kids. Now? They've become the key platform for public school students

Side note, Cambridge Public Schools are on Google education platform, so I'm getting first hand experience of what this looks/feels like with my partner's 10 and 12 year olds