Oxford philosopher warns private surveillance now rivals dictatorships
CarissaVeliz · x · 2026-10-12
- Oxford philosopher Carissa Véliz argues in Project Syndicate that tech leaders manufacture a sense of inevitability to normalize surrendering privacy.
- Her core warning: when private interests push surveillance to levels once seen only in dictatorships, the real question is how much liberal democracies can withstand.
- She pushes back on techno-determinism: such predictions become self-fulfilling only if people believe and act on them — the trajectory of online life remains a choice, not fate.
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