Episode · This Week in Startups · 2022-06-22

Books mentioned on TikTok data security, the Chinese surveillance state, Amazon running out of warehouse workers | E1490

1 book · With Molly Wood · Listen · Watch on YouTube

Today we kick it off with a discussion of BuzzFeed's reporting on TikTok, and we debate if there are real risks to worry about here (2:04). Then, we discuss Amazon forecasting it will run out of workers in some of the cities it operates in (37:16).

Jason Calacanis discussed The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

   Shoshana Zuboff · at 24:23

   The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff is a profound economic and sociological study examining how major technology corporations harvest human experience as behavioral data for profit and control.

   Discussed

   “like i'm saying that i don't want i like as a person who keeps this on my desk as like a bible the age of surveillance capitalism by shashana zubov like data collection is massively dangerous and terrifying”

   Jason Calacanis TikTok data security, the Chinese surveillance state, Amazon running o… 2022-06-22 Listen at 24:23

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