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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Empire Sovereignty – what does a powerful empire look like now? It’s got many people in its grasp. It collects & stores data about its subjects, to use for its own gain. It tracks their activity & location to target them with ‘information’. It cites privacy/ security as reasons for changes which benefit the emperor. …