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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Highlight

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A Google product manager admitted Skyhook’s superiority but expressed his concerns in an e-mail to a Google executive, noting that if other manufacturers switched to Skyhook, it “would be awful for Google, because it will cut off our ability to continue collecting data” for the company’s Wi-Fi location database. Court documents from Skyhook’s eventual lawsuit against Motorola

— Shoshana Zuboff

Replicated under Fair Use from The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff. (Pg. 135)