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Big mood machine - Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit

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  1. patience_limited
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    Did I see this as a Black Mirror episode already? In serendipity, I'd just read Jonathan Moore's The Night Market yesterday. It's a bit of sci-fi noir fiction which (not to provide spoilers)...

    Did I see this as a Black Mirror episode already?

    In serendipity, I'd just read Jonathan Moore's The Night Market yesterday. It's a bit of sci-fi noir fiction which (not to provide spoilers) explores a hideously logical outcome of this kind of programmatic manipulation of consumers.

    I don't know of any legislative or community mechanism that could prevent or obstruct the minute, wholesale surveillance-as-product industry, other than dropping every service.