The End of Privacy: What Surveillance Capitalism Is Doing to Your Brain audio documentary cover
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The End of Privacy: What Surveillance Capitalism Is Doing to Your Brain

They knew what they were building. They built it anyway.

In 2001, Google discovered that human behavior could be converted into a commodity. What followed was the invention of surveillance capitalism — a system designed not just to watch you, but to shape you. From Silicon Valley confessions to Cambridge Analytica, from dopamine architecture to social cooling, this is the story of what happens to freedom when someone else can predict your next move.

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surveillance capitalism privacy technology Shoshana Zuboff Google Facebook Cambridge Analytica data social media dopamine behavioral modification social cooling Tristan Harris Sean Parker GDPR free will Silicon Valley attention economy

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