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How Surveillance Capitalism Is Undermining Democracy

Clip: 2/19/2021 | 17m 29sVideo has Closed Captions

Author Shoshana Zuboff discusses surveillance capitalism.

The content on sites like Facebook and Google is supposedly free of charge. But what are the hidden costs to unsuspecting users? Shoshana Zuboff warns of an information coup, with the foundations of American democracy placed under threat by the tech giants’ clandestine data collection process. She speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about the dangers of “surveillance capitalism.”

02/19/2021

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