Exhaust Around 2000: birth of surveillance capitalism. Tech firms didn’t know how to make money from the internet. We did a search, they delivered results & ejected our details. Then Google stumbled on the answer: keep the “data exhaust” (who we are, what we seek, what we do next), render it into information to sell…
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Unregulated The only market that’s unregulated is the art business. Buying & selling paintings is one way to clean dirty money Guessed the Word? Series 22 (2/8) [pic: daniel van den berg]
You If you’re not paying for a service, you are the product The customers are the advertisers, who use info about you to target their ads Guessed the Word? Series 18 (5/5) [pic: simschmidt]