Age of Surveillance Capitalism: Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff | Book Club

Full Title: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Suggested by: Eugene

Pages to read: 546
ISBN: B01N2QEZE2 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9781610395700 (Edition I am using)

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While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What is surveillance capitalism?
•How has data use changed?
•How is data used by digital firms?
•How is data used by politics?
•Who has rights of data?
•Who has rights over privacy?
•Why are there privacy violations?
•How are free products paid for?
•Why do people use digital products?
•What patent enables the use of personal information for behavioral modification?
•What is the Aware Home? How did Aware Home initially consider their data? How did their data usage change?
•How do digital firms make their privacy violations legal?
•What is the different between content distributors and publishers?
•How is surveillance capitalism used for politics?
•What are the common rules that academic and government experiments required to comply with?
•How did Pokémon Go influence behavior?
•Do you have anything to hide?
•What is instrumentarian power? How is it different from totalitarianism?
•What are declarations?
•What does it mean to render data?

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.