Attention Economy


Monday, June 10, 2019

Age of Mass Surveillance

Wireless Tracking and Privacy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluetooth-wireless-tracking-privacy.html

Welcome to the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Your face is now your boarding pass. And that’s a problem.
Fowler notes:
“Mostly in the name of efficiency, airlines and the U.S. government are scanning the faces of people who aren’t suspected of crimes. That’s how privacy-invading technology — the stuff of China’s police state — creeps into American life.”