Tim Dunlop on work in the era of 'Surveillance Capitalism', presented by NSW Fabians

As users of various social media platforms and other types of online interaction, our personal data is extracted from us, for free, by us, and is being turned into the biggest fortunes in human history by a few corporations. This data extraction is allowing private firms and governments to monitor and control us, blurring the line between work and home, work and leisure, while putting downward pressure on wages and conditions. Current practices of data extraction are also concentrating wealth and therefore undermining democracy itself.

In this talk, author Tim Dunlop will talk about the way in which new technologies are affecting not just the way we work, but how we even understand what work is. He will offer some ways we can respond to this brave new world of data extraction and surveillance capitalism.

Bio

Tim Dunlop is an author and speaker who began working life as founder of…