Notices by Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 5

“Ending surveillance marketing is necessary for the future of not only digital marketing but also the future of humankind. As we evolve headlong into a fully connected world, surveillance is the default, until we change it.”

“Once we searched Google, but now Google searches us. Once we thought of digital services as free, but now surveillance capitalists think of us as free.”

“Demanding privacy from surveillance capitalists,” says Zuboff, “or lobbying for an end to commercial surveillance on the internet is like asking old Henry Ford to make each Model T by hand. It’s like asking a giraffe to shorten its neck, or a cow to give up chewing. These demands are existential threats that violate the basic mechanisms of the entity’s survival.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook

“Fellows will have the opportunity to work at public interest organizations at the forefront of debates on broadband and access policy, content regulation, copyright and creativity, consumer privacy, open government, government surveillance, data security, data innovation, free expression and more.”

I wonder how many Google Public Policy Fellows will be critical of Google.

They don’t have to explicitly forbid anything. The stipend alone is enough. Once you’re sponsored by the Goog are you really going to bite the hand that feeds?

This is one of the ways that influence works.

https://www.google.com/policyfellowship/index.html