![]() In late November, Angus attended a hearing in British Parliament in which representatives from nine countries took turns interrogating a Facebook vice president about the company’s proliferating scandals (an empty chair sat before a Mark Zuckerberg nameplate, marking the chief executive’s absence).įor Angus, fake news and data-based manipulation - exemplified by the shadowy work of Cambridge Analytica, whose voter-profiling scheme is often cited as an important factor in Donald Trump’s 2016 victory - were mere symptoms of a larger malady. A member of Canada’s Parliament for the New Democratic Party, Angus is a longtime punk rocker and activist with ties to the Catholic Worker movement he’s also a sharp critic of the growing power of Big Tech. ![]() ![]() $38Ĭanadian politicians don’t attract much notice this side of the border, but recently I’ve been heeding the words of Charlie Angus. THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power By Shoshana Zuboff 691 pp. ![]()
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