Podcast: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags

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Recorded16 Jul 2018

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Here’s my reading (MP3) of Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags, a Locus Magazine column about the corruption implicit in surveillance capitalism, which creates giant risks to users by collecting sensitive information about them in order to eke out tiny gains in the efficacy of targeted advertising. The commercial surveillance industry may not be very good... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/07/16/podcast-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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