# Surveillance capitalism

A specific type of information capitalism.

> The declaration thus established a radically disembedded and extractive variant of information capitalism that can I label  “surveillance capitalism.”
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> Does [[information capitalism]] have to be based on surveillance. No. But surveillance capitalism has emerged as a leading version of information capitalism.
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> – [Shoshan Zuboff on “Big Data” as Surveillance Capitalism](https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/the-digital-debate/shoshan-zuboff-on-big-data-as-surveillance-capitalism-13152525.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_2)

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