What Does Surveillance Capitalism Mean?
Surveillance capitalism is a term for the process of profiting from surveilling citizens or consumers. It is often applied to the efforts of companies to market personal data that is gleaned from the internet or mobile devices.
Techopedia Explains Surveillance Capitalism
The idea behind surveillance capitalism is that private data has value. This idea is gaining steam with the emergence of artificial intelligence and machine learning platforms that take in large amounts of raw data and spit out insights for business. Companies now compete to get these insights by providing the raw data that the programs need through forms of surveillance capitalism.
