# Surveillance capitalism: everything tracked, analyzed, monetized

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-11-15
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** Priv8 Virtual Privacy Summit 2021: Featuring Glenn Greenwald, Dr. Steven Waterhouse, and more! (Orchid Labs)
- **Watch at:** 04:29:07 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6eqn72dqzs&t=16147s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2021-11-15-surveillance-capitalism-everything-tracked-analyze-jjuy/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Surveillance capitalism: everything tracked, analyzed, monetized," Priv8 Virtual Privacy Summit 2021: Featuring Glenn Greenwald, Dr. Steven Waterhouse, and more! (Orchid Labs), 15 Nov 2021, 04:29:07. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6eqn72dqzs&t=16147s

## Quote — verbatim

> The way I would define surveillance capitalism is a modern-day business model where everything we do is tracked and analyzed and monetized... this didn't really exist 10 years ago... Google really knows... when you're pregnant, Facebook knows when you have a period, my Fitbit knows when I'm having sex... How did we end up here? I think we traded convenience for privacy without even realizing what we're trading for, and we traded user experience for privacy.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering the moderator's question on how to incentivize people toward more private systems; frames web2 monetization as surveillance capitalism.