* Our lives are mediated by platforms that, in their most benign incarnation, profit from the information we freely offer, exploiting our emotional and cognitive abilities in an ever-escalating bid for our attention. In a no less frequent manifestation of our platform economy, a complex system of surveillance disguises itself within our hyper-fantasy of connection. Should you drive a Tesla, it is filming you, and if you have an Alexa or an Echo, it's recording you. Amazon is a convenient service provider for the private citizen––and ICE uses its technology when tracking and apprehending immigrants. Perhaps most staggering of all, none of this is secret. …
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