Leaving the #ResponsibleAISummit with 1 question:
How much agency do users really have in systems built to predict, steer & optimise them?

For those curious, 3 books worth exploring:
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by #Zuboff
• Logging Off by Adele Walton
• #Privacy Is Power by Carissa Véliz

Mapped & Tracked: How Ad Tech's Identity Graphs Follow You Across Every App (2025) Ever wonder how that ad for something you just searched for on your laptop suddenly appears in an app on your phone? It’s not magic, and it's definitely not a coincidence. Behind the seamless surface of your digital life, a vast, invisible network is constantly watching, connecting the dots of your identity across every app, website, and device you use. Welcome to the world of surveillance capitalism in 2025. In this episode, we map the hidden "Cloud That Watched Us." You'll learn how sophisticated ad-tech systems and complex "identity graphs" stitch together fragments of your online activity into a detailed digital dossier. We'll demystify the jargon, expose the journey your data takes in milliseconds, and translate the groundbreaking work of Shoshana Zuboff into the everyday reality of being tracked. How much does the digital world really know about you, and who is pulling the strings?

📣 New Podcast! "Mapped & Tracked: How Ad Tech's Identity Graphs Follow You Across Every App (2025)" on @Spreaker #rtb #ad #bidding #big #capitalism #cross_app #data #digital #ethics #footprint #graphs #identity #privacy #real_time #shoshana #surveillance #tech #technology #tracking #zuboff

Kriegsverbrecher für Frieden?
1984 lässt grüßen
www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/de/articles/...
#Kriegsverbrecher #Netanjahu #Trump #Obama #Leyen #Friedensnobelpreis #Neusprech #Zuboff #Überwachungskapitalismus #SchuleohneMilitär #Atomwaffen #Militär #Aufrüstung #Waffenexporte #Drohnen #Frieden

Vordergrund: Handschellen, groß im Bild. Links, halbe Bildfläche: Jeff Bezos der Viertelvorzwölfte, König des Überwachungsstaates Amazonien, mit seiner zukünftigen MAGA-Style-Gemahlin, eine optische Leihgabe von König Trump, leider verunstaltet durch viele Gesichtsoperationen. So sad. Hintergrund: ein Muster aus vielen kleinen transparenten Bildwiederholungen.

"Das Ziel des Informationskapitalismus ist eine totalitäre Gesellschaftsordnung."
Shoshana #Zuboff

#deleteGAFAM #unplugTrump #deleteThiel #Palantir #Gotham #SurveillanceCapitalism #Überwachungskapitalismus ​

#Foucault #Deleuze #Zuboff #Gramsci #Poulantzas #MarkFisher #NickSrnicek #BifoBerardi

A series of books with author surnames beginning with Z.

🏳️‍⚧️🩵🩵🩷🩷🤍🤍🩷🩷🩵🩵📚💙
Ok; last cube of regular books on the main library shelf 42/42

#booksky #Zizek #Zuboff #philosophy #psychology #psychoanalysis

ZDFheute: Welche Konsequenzen ergeben sich daraus für unsere Gesellschaft? Zuboff: Die Konzerne sind zu Trump gekommen, weil er sie vor dem Gesetz beschützen will. Und dafür stellen sie ihm ihre Manipulationswerkzeuge zur Verfügung. Wenn es ihm passt, kann er die nutzen, um die Öffentlichkeit aufzustacheln gegen missliebige Institutionen, die Umweltbehörde EPA oder die Entwicklungshilfe USAID. Er kann Misstrauen säen, demokratische Einrichtungen schwächen, er kann Menschen einander entfremden, sie "de-sozialisieren". Die Gesellschaft wirkt nicht mehr zusammen, sondern jeder für sich versinkt in einem Sumpf der Lügen. Und niemand kann mehr sagen, was stimmt und was nicht. Das zerreißt unsere Gesellschaft.

Lesenswertes Interview von #ZDFheute mit Shoshana #Zuboff warum CEOs
von Tech-Konzernen die Nähe von #Trump suchen: weil das einzige,was deren Machtfülle,von der selbst Kaiser nur träumen konnten,noch stoppen kann,eine viel strengere Regulierung durch den Gesetzgeber wäre.
www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...

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There's a really cool online panel going on tonight CET, entitled ‘Hostile Takeover? – How tech billionaires are undermining our democracies & what the EU can do’

Great speakers including @markus_netzpolitik, Shoshana #Zuboff, and @alexandrageese […]

when you look at how easily 23 years of #ubiquitous #surveillance was carried out

We damned well know the only #purpose was to gather #kompromat for the day anyone who would access would #leverage it

“The real psychological #truth is this:
If you've got #NothingToHide’, you are nothing”- #Zuboff

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Surveillance capitalism seeks to convert all human experience into data, creating wealth by predicting and influencing our behaviour at scale.

Liars & their Powers for Evil

“… left to its own devices, #SurveillanceCapitalism will continue to “tune, herd, & condition” our behavior with evermore subtle & subliminal cues that steer us
…
Human agency, “our right to the future tense,” #Zuboff says, hangs in the balance.”

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Surveillance capitalism seeks to convert all human experience into data, creating wealth by predicting and influencing our behaviour at scale.

craven, brazen liars!
& their unlimited Evil power

“… left to its own devices, #SurveillanceCapitalism will continue to “tune, herd, & condition” our behavior with evermore subtle & subliminal cues that steer us
…
Human agency, “our right to the future tense,” #Zuboff says, hangs in the balance.”

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Surveillance capitalism seeks to convert all human experience into data, creating wealth by predicting and influencing our behaviour at scale.

& corporate POWER for Evil 🧬 in #Biometrics & #jobs

“… left to its own devices, #SurveillanceCapitalism will continue to “tune, herd, & condition” our behavior with evermore subtle & subliminal cues that steer us
…
Human agency, “our right to the future tense,” #Zuboff says, hangs in the balance.”

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Surveillance capitalism seeks to convert all human experience into data, creating wealth by predicting and influencing our behaviour at scale.

these craven, brazen liars!
& their POWER for Evil

“… left to its own devices, #SurveillanceCapitalism will continue to “tune, herd, & condition” our behavior with evermore subtle & subliminal cues that steer us
…
Human agency, “our right to the future tense,” #Zuboff says, hangs in the balance.”