Surveillance capitalism

"...internet users watched govts do nothing about tech power for 2 decades. Surveillance capitalism was enabled because its practitioners operated in a lawless environment. It appropriated people’s data as a free resource & asserted its right to do so..."

https://www.newstatesman.com/2020/02/slouching-towards-dystopia-rise-surveillance-capitalism-and-death-privacy

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1374719403409948678