SUBDUE

YOUR  TECH

[Big Tech] accumulates vast domains of new knowledge from us, but not for us.

There was a time when you searched Google, but now Google searches you.

The truth is that no consumer or citizen can know what data is being collected about them... To say that anyone has consented to live in this world is a lie...

... the benefits and deficits of a new technology are not distributed equally. There are, as it were, winners and losers. It is both puzzling and poignant that on many occasions the losers, out of ignorance, have actually cheered the winners...

Important corporate actors have unprecedented knowledge of the minutiae of our daily lives, while we know little to nothing about how they use this knowledge to influence the important decisions that we—and they—make.

For every individual attempting to exercise self-control over computer use… there are a thousand experts on the other side of the screen whose job it is to break it down.

A smartphone in a personalized case seems like... a portable vending machine full of mood-brightening apps. But in this instance, as in so many others, the sheepskin of consumer autonomy conceals the wolf of emotional manipulation from a distance.

Any sense of control over tech deployed by predatory corporations or oppressive governments is a carefully crafted illusion... We're being herded into a digital cage.

Algorithms analyse [our data] for patterns of established behavior... Once you go digging into the actual technical mechanisms by which predictability is calculated, you come to understand... predictability is actually manipulation.

You might think your privacy is safe because you are a nobody... If you weren't that important, businesses and governments wouldn't be going to so much trouble to spy on you.

Everyone in tech wants you to pay attention to their app... even if that means luring you away from quality time with your loved ones or basic human needs such as sleep.