"We must make a choice. We may have democracy or we may have a surveillance society. But we cannot have both. A democratic surveillance society is an existential and political impossibility." 

Welcome to the first episode of WESPOD! We are excited to bring you Shoshana Zuboff, writer, activist, and professor at Harvard Business School. In this fascinating talk, Zuboff discusses the perils of surveillance capitalism, which profits from "data-fication" of human behaviour and experience. She argues that tech giants such as Facebook, Amazon, Google, who hold the answers to "who knows", and "who decides who knows", without being elected and for profit motives. This violates our epistemic rights, which poses a fundamental threat to democracy and the rule of law, and presses the need for better legal institutions. 

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