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6 - Fighting Back

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2021

Ari Ezra Waldman
Ari Ezra Waldman
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Northeastern University, Boston
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We are told that accepting widespread corporate surveillance is a natural progression for human civilization. Peter Schwartz, a senior vice president at Salesforce: “Gradually, we will accept much, much greater surveillance. And in the end we won’t be too bothered by it.” Thomas Friedman in 2014: “Privacy is over.” Mark Zuckerberg in 2010: “The age of privacy is over.” Sun Microsystem’s former CEO Scott McNealy in 1999: We “have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”1

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privacylawlaw and societydiscoursecompliancedesigntechnologysurveillance capitalisminformational capitalismbig techorganizationsbureaucracy
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Industry Unbound
The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power
 , pp. 232 - 248
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Fighting Back
  • Ari Ezra Waldman, Northeastern University, Boston
  • Book: Industry Unbound
  • Online publication: 17 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108591386.008
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  • Fighting Back
  • Ari Ezra Waldman, Northeastern University, Boston
  • Book: Industry Unbound
  • Online publication: 17 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108591386.008
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  • Fighting Back
  • Ari Ezra Waldman, Northeastern University, Boston
  • Book: Industry Unbound
  • Online publication: 17 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108591386.008
Available formats
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