Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and “Surveillance Capitalism”
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By Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Global Research
Whether it creeps into politics, marketing, or simple profiling, the nature of surveillance as totality has been affirmed by certain events this decade. The Edward Snowden disclosures of 2013 demonstrated the complicity and collusion between Silicon Valley and the technological stewards of the national security state.
It took the election of Donald J. Trump in 2016 to move the issue of social media profiling, sharing and targeting of information, to another level. Not only could companies such as Facebook monetise their user base; those details could, in turn, be plundered, mined and exploited for political purpose.
As a social phenomenon, Facebook could not help but become a juggernaut inimical to the private sphere it has so co...