Yesterday when we were driving out of a mall parking lot after paying at machine, the gate automatically opened. No need to insert ticket. When paying, it also asked if we needed help finding car and showed a photo/space number. License plate was being tracked entry to exit.
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I like surveillance capitalism a lot better than either surveillance state or sousveillance/participatory panopticon
Surveillance states = more state harassment
Sousveillance = hell is other people [‘s screenshots]
Surveillance capitalism = easier parking at least
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Of course the danger is, once the infrastructure is there for capitalism, it is inevitably also coopted by the state and the crowd
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The object in question is necessarily the same if we’re talking cooption.
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I meant it starts as the same thing. It starts as Surveillance states and then spills to businesses and individuals.
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Not necessarily. Depends on the history of a particular technology.
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