Today& #39;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/">https://theintercept.com/2020/09/1...

. @shoshanazuboff begins by pointing out record gains for big tech companies. A sobering reminder that the & #39;moment of reckoning& #39; 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& #39;s massive mobilization for Black liberation as & #39;manufactured& #39; 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& #39;ve become the key platform for public school students

Side note, Cambridge Public Schools are on Google education platform, so I& #39;m getting first hand experience of what this looks/feels like with my partner& #39;s 10 and 12 year olds