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The most consequential infrastructure project in human history was built without a single public vote, legislative debate, or constitutional amendment.Between 2007 and 2018, a planetary-scale surveillance apparatus emerged that now captures more information about individual human behavior than existed in all previous forms of recorded history combined. It was not built by dictators or secret police. It was built by engineers solving interesting problems, executives chasing quarterly growth, intelligence officials responding to real threats, and billions of consumers clicking ""I agree"" for convenience.This book is the complete, unflinching story of how it happened.From the smartphone revolution that turned every pocket into a tracking device, to the Snowden revelations that exposed government overreach, to the rise of China's social-credit dystopia and the explosion of commercial data brokers, The Surveillance Conquest traces the three decisive decade when collection became prediction, prediction became shaping, and privacy quietly ceased to exist.No conspiracy. No master plan. Just the inevitable outcome when powerful incentives, unchecked technology, and human nature converged.By the time most people noticed, the machine was already too big to stop.This is the story of how we lost control of our own behavior-and what, if anything, we can still do about it.

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