More underestimation of the Russians ' effect on the 2016 US election and government

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The interview with Shoshana Zuboff has 2 URL's, the first one is an absolutely brilliant article (not my opinion - "Shoshana Zuboff’s essay “Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization,” which appeared in the March 2015 special issue of the Journal of Information Technology, was the recipient of the International Conference on Information Systems Senior Scholars’ 2016 Best Paper Award says her web site) which can be found here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2594754

Radio news right now announcing a major EU fine for Google's privacy infringements.

Michel

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Wow! I was just reading this article, when I paused to check out the p-list, and, lo and behold, it's being referenced by Mike. It is interesting and goes to the heart of consumer enabled self-enslavement Here's a good sample:

"While the general modus operandi of [Google](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/google), Facebook et al has been known and understood (at least by some people) for a while, what has been missing – and what Zuboff provides – is the insight and scholarship to situate them in a wider context. She points out that while most of us think that we are dealing merely with algorithmic inscrutability, in fact what confronts us is the latest phase in capitalism’s long evolution – from the making of products, to mass production, to managerial capitalism, to services, to financial capitalism, and now to the exploitation of behavioural predictions covertly derived from the surveillance of users. In that sense, her vast (660-page) book is a continuation of a tradition that includes Adam Smith, Max Weber, Karl Polanyi and – dare I say it – Karl Marx."

 And Mr. Jing, glad to hear from you again, as well. You are Chinese I assume. I would love to hear your take on the Chinese use (and abuse?) of facial recognition technology. Of course, you may be Taiwanese, but still, you're sure to be more enlightened than I am about that sort of thing.