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Leading American scholars say the Nordic manifesto on childhood and democracy could become a turning point in the fight against a ruthless tech and AI industry.

New joint Nordic bulwark against Big Tech is hailed by leading American scholars

Shoshana Zuboff distilled years of research into the best seller ’The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.’ Foto: PR
Shoshana Zuboff distilled years of research into the best seller ’The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.’ Foto: PR

In 2018, Harvard professor and social psychologist Shoshana Zuboff gave a name to the economic force that transformed our lives and upended political and democratic power structures: surveillance capitalism.

It is the term for the business model and mutated form of capitalism in which human behavior and preferences are covertly invaded, extracted as data and exploited for profit through digital platforms.

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