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We then spoke to over 45 [https://wiki.mozilla.org/State_Of_The_Internet/Surveillance_Economy/experts people*] representing a wide range of perspectives on this space — from policy wonks, economic theorists, and heads of government to Mozilla product managers, community members, Mozilla Fellows, and diversity, equity, and inclusion activists. We asked each to help us understand the State of the Surveillance Economy: What is it? How did we get here? Why is it so insidious? How, exactly, does it hurt people and companies? And, most importantly, what can we do about it?
[[File:Provocations .png|thumb]]Working from some of our early findings, we created three [https://mozilla-soti.consider.it design provocations] and shared them with Mozilla community members and employees for voting and feedback. Mozilla has a remarkable asset in our diverse communities, so including their voices in this conversation was critical to our learning. These crazy 'edge case' departures and directions gave us more insight into what directions resonated most, and helped to bring in new thinking too.
In parallel, we ran traditional -- but limited -- market research, built a graph and clustered topics from a Wikipedia crawl to help ensure subject breadth, and generally immersed ourselves in the world of surveillance.
