Today’s post evidenced the dying light of surveillance capitalism.
Platformer business models are typically reliant on (BRICS) Chinese data currency exchanges. If you don’t give a platform a cookie, they cannot make a Yuan out of it. In China’s sudden economic desperation, they are leaning hard onto US tech companies to produce deep identity information, biometric data, SSN verifications, and mandatory AI behavioral collection to train their systems. These are things a platform never had the right to ask for in the history of the Internet.
The shakedown is getting so gross, ‘X’ - formerly known as Twitter, is now shaking down profiles for “commercial inviability”. This means unless they can make money off of your transactional surveillance data, at an extortionary exchange rate to keep China’s economy from collapsing, they will boot you from the platform. Tech companies aligned with foreign exchange surveillance models are already starving.
China’s economic dependency on US data should necessarily tank because they cannot stop stealing from US data centers and computing infrastructure hubs using APT attacks. If you stop feeding the CCP’s credit familiars platformer transactional data, for at least 3 months, you might kill the technical surveillance model. It is dependent on China’s currency exchange. If that collapses, the Internet will be forced to start over on a non-surveillance based business model requisite of personal information.
So maybe just quiet quit - but do it with an ultimatum. Find another means to an end without slaving personal information in an anachronistic hedge for global tyranny. Tell me what you think.
Everything that has been done in the war between China/US (governments mind you, not necessarily representative of the people), has backfired (the Beijing flood/California hurricane, the market/currency manipulation, spying on both sides, etc. etc.). But alongside the vicious cycle there are also virtuous cycles.
Good question. If you read the EULA/Terms of Service and know which 3rd party data brokers work with BRICS then ..you're conscious of where your information is going. If you don't... then your information goes into BRICS rather deceptively or fairly unknowingly. I think the FTC needs to look into the brokerage tree furthe for both deceptive and unfair as routine business process.
It will surely backfire. So let karma :)
What do you mean? Please, explain.
Everything that has been done in the war between China/US (governments mind you, not necessarily representative of the people), has backfired (the Beijing flood/California hurricane, the market/currency manipulation, spying on both sides, etc. etc.). But alongside the vicious cycle there are also virtuous cycles.
Reading your work. Thanks. Do people get on to platforms or BRICS without knowing?
Good question. If you read the EULA/Terms of Service and know which 3rd party data brokers work with BRICS then ..you're conscious of where your information is going. If you don't... then your information goes into BRICS rather deceptively or fairly unknowingly. I think the FTC needs to look into the brokerage tree furthe for both deceptive and unfair as routine business process.
Here is some supporting information about 3rd party risks assumed by the company and passed to consumers.
https://www.dwt.com/blogs/privacy--security-law-blog/2023/09/managing-third-party-cyber-risks-webinar-available