surveillance capitalism
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An economic system based on the commodification of individuals' personal data for profit.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "If you think that not posting these two photos does anything to surveillance capitalism or the platforms that succeed through it, that’s just not right."
- "That’s one way to understand Apple’s empty message about privacy. Tim Cook talks a big game, but at the end of the day, his company is allowing the surveillance-capitalism atrocities it claims to oppose."