Surveillance capitalism

The economic model in which firms extract behavioral and personal data as raw material for prediction and AI training, driving the mass-surveillance and coerced-consent dynamics now provoking public and institutional backlash.

grounded in: HN front-page trend theme (2026-07-13): 'Surveillance & data-privacy backlash: public and institutional pushback against mass surveillance and coerced AI-training data is dominating the front page.'