Using a real example of a corporation or group of corporations, discuss how the proliferation of surveillance capitalism and technology-enabled decision making has weakened corporate accountability and resulted in poorer outcomes for civil society, whilst enriching a few.
• What is meant by the term surveillance capitalism
• The importance of corporate accountability and how it helps manage corporate power
• How fictionalization may privilege particular groups in society and increase corporate power to the detriment of others.
• Concerns that might arise when returns to financiers or small groups of
sophisticated or wealthy investors vastly exceed returns to the real economy.