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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

How corporations got all your data

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Anti-Democracy Nature of Surveillance Capitalism

Democracy by design is not supposed to give us final authoritative answers on what is good or right or just. And the fact that these things are happening beyond the reach of the public is the problem. I think it's enormously important for us to reclaim our right to control our data. But we need both legal transformations that empower citizens and we need technological opting in not to be the answer.

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