Jamal Awil

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Rights advocates know technology's dangers but lack strategies to counter them [causal]

It is a serious mistake to underestimate her, or the movements she now helps to lead. Because here is a non-snide version of the "Wait until they hear about cell phones" quip: They know all about cell phones. They just don't know what to do about cell phones (or smart speakers or search histories or shadow banning or email and social media metadata…). And neither, it seems, does anyone else, including those in power, who are patently unwilling to rein in what the Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff has called "surveillance capitalism." And Wolf, with her "Five Freedoms" campaign and her calls for anti-vax civil disobedience, is giving her followers something to do. She is telling them that it's not too late to get their privacy, and their freedoms, back.

XREF: Connects to Zuboff's surveillance capitalism concept and broader debates about corporate data collection versus individual privacy rights.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 268