[pdkl95]

> Everyone

Abusing technology to gather and monetize data that reveals users' "pattern of life" used to be limited to tech companies. Now that the tech industry rot has spread into other traditionally unrelated industries the abuse becomes systemic. We are now seeing the results of the spreading rot as a fundamental shift in our economic system from capitalism based on mass-production and financialization into surveillance capitalism[1].

We are already seeing entire industries shift from their traditional business models into surveillance oriented data. After a critical mass of businesses pivot to surveillance capitalism, the rest of the market becomes strongly incentivized to also become a surveillance capitalism style business or risk being left behind unable to participate in the new market.

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/shoshana-zuboff-q-an...

[Syonyk]

Thanks for reminding me, that book has been on my list of "I should get around to reading..." for a while. It's a long slog, but seems more and more relevant.