It's worth noting that an understanding of this logic of accumulation would have usefully contributed to the EU Commission's deliberations on the WhatsApp acquisition, which was permitted based on assurances that data flows from the two businesses would remain separate. The commission would discover later that the extraction imperative and its necessary of economies of scale in supply operations compel the integration of surplus flows in the quest for better prediction products.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 329