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How email harvesting turns inboxes into corporate property

I gave my email to get a discount at one store and now I get emails from hundreds of companies I have never heard of and I feel like I sold my attention for two dollars.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The commodification of our attention through data sharing transforms our personal communication spaces into commercial territories we cannot reclaim.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Corporate surveillance and data extraction?”

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