You Are Literally Working for Silicon Valley and Don’t Know It

The digital economy has been called ‘surveillance capitalism,’ but that doesn’t capture how insidious it really is

Jacob Silverman
GEN
Published in
6 min readDec 26, 2019

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DDuring the last decade, thanks to the proliferation of sensors and data-rich devices, a new economic order sprung up around us. Some refer to it as “surveillance…

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Jacob Silverman
GEN
Writer for

Writer on tech, politics, privacy, whatnot. I’m the author of “Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection.”