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==== People are Exposed in the Surveillance Economy ====
To engage with the Internet, you have to be willing to give up data. It’s all in or all out, with little control over what is shared in different contexts.
It’s clunky and requires continuous time, attention and knowledge to set up and maintain.
This pain is perpetuated by: <br />
'''Corporations don’t see themselves as responsible'''<br />
The ideology of Silicon Valley is that technology is agnostic, and so it—and the people that make it—are not accountable to design with people’s privacy in mind.
'''Always more, and always on''' <br />
While people have low visibility of corporate surveillance on their lives, corporations are striving to have ever more visibility of people: more touch points, more environments, and more data.
'''Little power to the people''' <br />
People have become atomized customers, stripped of any potential power for collectives to demand new protections from corporations.
'''A mismatched market'''<br />
People want convenience. Corporations want surplus. Companies supply the convenience people demand, extracting as much data as possible in return. It’s not a fair or transparent exchange.
