It is indeed a perverse brand of speculation. The data that are being obsessively collected, largely against our will, are tabulations of our potential to consume, and in the cannibalistic system Goodman documents, this itself is consumable.
These demoralizing, if not dehumanizing encroachments are the result, more or less, of the transformation of citizens from consumers to consumed. These entities justify this through sneaky changes to their terms of service, which are like contracts they rewrite behind your backs.
Alongside the precedent set by that command center for terrorists and that nearly fatal Google search (the banker in fact got out), Goodman also traces mass transactions that dehumanize citizens largely through endless encroachments on privacy: the social media sites that steal and sell your data and grant themselves rights to keep it forever.
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