THE MOUSE AND THE TRAP: THREE WAYS TO ESCAPE SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM?
This short post aims at discussing escape-routes for the exponential growth of surveillance capitalist models in the digital world. By proposing three different alternatives, the work questions whether it is possible to escape the massive data harvesting that feeds companies like Google or Facebook and turns ‘free’ apps like Pokémon Go into data mining lucrative tools. By analyzing three alternatives, namely i) subscriptions models, ii) nationalization of platforms and iii) information fiduciaries, the work concludes that the age of surveillance capitalism is deeply linked to our second Gilded Age and regulation of the digital sector is dearly needed.
