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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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the behavioral surplus upon which Google’s fortune rests can be considered as surveillance assets. These assets are critical raw materials in the pursuit of surveillance revenues and their translation into surveillance capital. The entire logic of this capital accumulation is most accurately understood as surveillance capitalism, which is the foundational framework for a surveillance-based economic order: a surveillance economy

— 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. 94)