The Surveillance Paradigm: Be the friction – Our Response to the New Lords of the Ring – Feuilleton – FAZ

Source: The Surveillance Paradigm: Be the friction – Our Response to the New Lords of the Ring – Feuilleton – FAZ, by Shoshana Zuboff

A new social logic is taking shape: It’s all about surveillance. The individual is used as a mere provider of data. It’s time to break the arrogance of Silicon Valley.

Zuboff’s three laws: First, that everything that can be automated will be automated. Second, that everything that can be informated will be informated. And most important to us now, the third law: in the absence of countervailing restrictions and sanctions, every digital application that can be used for surveillance and control will be used for surveillance and control, irrespective of its originating intention.