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Feb 2019
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Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitali...

Financial Times
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John Thornhill talks to the social scientist Shoshana Zuboff about her book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, and what we need to do to reclaim the more benign impacts of the digital revolution.

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