Surveillance Capitalism
Industrial capitalism is a literal interpretation of Newton’s laws of motion. True or False
False
Companies want surpluses of supply so they use the algorithm to influence our spending habits. True or False
False
This dependence between companies and society supported the growth of democracy in Britain and America. True or False
True
Location data from Pokémon Go is considered especially sensitive because it can reveal personal routines and even access to critical infrastructure. True or False
True
This company is credited with starting Surveillance Capitalism by collecting behavioral data and target ads.
Companies analyze purchasing trends to set prices by estimating what economic concept?
Willingness to pay
What is Adam Smith’s idea
Wages and prices must balance so laborers can still afford necessities.
What app uses player-submitted scans of real-world locations to build a large AI-powered geospatial model.
Pokémon Go
Surveillance Capitalism claims this type of personal aspect as private experiences that can be exchanged for profit.
Private relationships and experiences?
What are the three economic imperatives?
Extraction Imperative, Prediction Imperative, and Economies of Action
What are the ways that companies hide their mechanisms?
“Privacy Policies” and “Terms of Service Agreements”
This number of new scans are added weekly to Niantic’s system.
1 million
Surveillance Capitalism relies on collecting more data than needed for product improvements; this excess data is called what?
Behavioral surplus
These hidden systems, found in devices like phones and smart speakers, are designed to continuously collect behavioral surplus.
Data extraction systems
Which historical movement can we draw connections to when analyzing today’s public resistance to Surveillance Capitalism?
American Revolution
What did businesses pay Niantic to place these near their storefronts, which serves as an early example of monetizing gameplay data.
PokéStops
Commodity functions three crucial mental inventions. What are they?
1. Human labour can be bought and sold on the market
2. Nature can be bought and sold as “land” or “real estate”
3. Exchange can be defined as “money”
What is Big Other, and who coined the term?
An automated system that constantly tracks people. Based on treating humans as data points, not individuals. - Zuboff’s
The approach where Surveillance Capitalism encouraged extreme structural independence from the people is called?
Radical indifference
Privacy experts warn that this type of data can reveal critical infrastructure sites and even pose national security risks
Geolocation data