Shoshana Zuboff
Harvard professor emerita; author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff coined "surveillance capitalism" for business models that collect personal behavior data to predict and shape what people do. Her 2019 book traces how Google and Facebook built that model.
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