surveillance capitalism
Profitable behavioral tracking
Surveillance capitalism is an economic system in which companies harvest personal data from users—often through free services like search engines and social media—and sell that information or use it to target advertising.
The term, coined by scholar Shoshana Zuboff, frames this data extraction as a new form of capitalism where human experience becomes raw material for profit.
Critics argue surveillance capitalism erodes privacy and manipulates behavior.
- cybercapitalismInternet-era market economy
- cybereconomyInternet-driven economic activity
- cybersurveillanceDigital observation of communications
- nudgingLight push to prompt
- digital rightsOnline privacy legal protections
data privacy · privacy invasion · behavioral economics · information security · targeted advertising · personalization · filter bubble · consent · corporate lobbying · attention economy · biometric data · data harvesting · algorithmic bias · dark patterns · terms of service · data mining · big data · metadata
- digital societysocial networks, internet, digital age, internet culture, digital natives
- tech ethicsAI ethics, AI bias, data privacy, deepfakes, digital rights
- capitalism critiquewealth inequality, income inequality, wealth gap, income gap, class divide
- tech culturedevelopers, coders, startup culture, programmers, computers
- exploitationexploit, predatory, sex trafficking, take advantage, human trafficking
- tech economySilicon Valley, tech giants, startups, IPO, apps
surveillance capitalismdigital privacy
Protection of online information
anonymity · end-to-end encryption · right to be forgotten · informed consent · anti-tracking
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