Why Advertising Shapes the Tech Economy w/ Daniel Joseph
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Role of Data in the Surveillance Capitalist Argument
Data is really key to kind of the whole surveillance capitalism argument right that these companies are really spying on us so that they can collect this data that's valuable for their business models. So much of this industry has caught up in a world of fraud and and fakery and so they have to really constantly be like selling the data and verifying that data and making the case that that data is authentically what it is. I think actually the accuracy of the data almost doesn't matter what matters is the fact that that company is able to produce receipts and authentication metrics and all these other things that say it's real.
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