BBC - Why Amazon knows so much about you

On February 17 2020, BBC Panorama Program explored the rise of Amazon and their strategy for growth, driven in part by ‘obsessive data gathering’. This is a powerful example of Surveillance Capitalism, and Shoshana Zuboff, Roger McNamee and Meredith Whittaker all appear on this informative and disturbing documentary. If you want an accessible introduction to surveillance capitalism as practiced by Google, Facebook and Microsoft (to name three other organisations) - this is a good place to start.

The BBC prepared an informative microsite in support of the documentary.
You can reach it via this link.

For users in the UK, you can watch the Panorama programme via this link which should be valid for up to 1 year from the original broadcast date.

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