Recent Articles

The Journal Of Organizational Theory | 11/21/22

Surveillance Capitalism Or Democracy?

TIME | Interview 05/11/22

 

Europe Is Saving Democracy From Big Tech, Says the Author of Surveillance Capitalism

 

Financial Times | Op-ed 05/02/22

The EU has fired the starting gun in the fightback against Big Tech:
Brussels’ Digital Services Act presages a sea change in regulation and democratic accountability

 

THE NEW YORK TIMES | Op-ed 11/12/21

“You Are the Object of a Secret Extraction Operation”

 

THE NEW YORK TIMES | Op-ed 1/31/21

“The Other Coup”

THE NEW YORK TIMES | Op-ed  1/24/20

“You Are Now Remotely Controlled”



GUARDIAN | Op-ed, 7/2/2019

The tech giants use our data not only to predict our behavior but to change it. But we can resist this attack on democracy.

TIME MAGAZINE | Op-ed, 6/6/2019

The Surveillance Threat Is Not What Orwell Imagined.

FAST COMPANY | Op-ed, 2/22/2019

Facebook, Google, and other masters of the surveillance economy have bred a virulent mutation of capitalism, which explains why they aren’t interested in addressing their many scandals.

FINANCIAL TIMES | Op-ed, 1/26/2019

Shoshana Zuboff on Facebook, Google and a dark age of surveillance capitalism

WASHINGTON POST | Op-ed, 1/24/2019

‘Surveillance capitalism’ has gone rogue. We must curb its excesses.

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE | Op-ed, 5/3/2016

Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to. The company is creating a wholly new genus of capitalism, a systemic coherent new logic of accumulation we should call surveillance capitalism. Is there nothing we can do?surveillance capitalism

JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | ESSAY, 4/17/2015

“Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization,”   Journal of Information Technology, 2015.  Recipient of the International Conference on Information Systems Senior Scholars Best Paper Award 2016. 

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE | Op-ed, 3/23/2015

The case of Uber shows why European companies should not follow the example of their American competitors too closely. It pays to take the needs of customers and contractors into account.

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE | Op-ed, 9/15/2014

If the digital future is to be our home, then it is we who must make it so. Against the Surveillance Capitalism of „Big Data“.

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE | Op-ed, 4/30/2014

We witness the rise of a new absolute power. Google transfers its radical politics from cyberspace to reality. It will earn its money by knowing, manipulating, controlling the reality and cutting it into the tiniest pieces.

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE | Op-ed, 6/25/2013

A new social logic is taking shape: It’s all about surveillance. The individual is used as a mere provider of data. It’s time to break the arrogance of Silicon Valley.