The product.

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Source: What is a "product":?

noun; Something produced by human or mechanical effort or by a

natural process, as.

noun; An item that is made or refined and marketed.

Supporting Source: The

Product model:

... In addition, a specific unit of a product is often (and in some

contexts must be) identified by a serial number, which is necessary to

distinguish products with the same product definition.

Supporting Source: What is

Commodification?

Within a capitalist economic system, commodification is the

transformation of things such as goods, services, ideas, nature,

personal information, people or animals into objects of trade or

commodities. A commodity at its most basic, according to Arjun

Appadurai, is "anything intended for exchange," or any object of

economic value.

Commodification is often criticized on the grounds that some things

ought not to be treated as commodities-for example, water, education,

data, information, knowledge, human life, and animal life.

Supporting Source: What is Attention

economy?

Attention economics is an approach to the management of information

that treats human attention as a scarce commodity and applies economic

theory to solve various information management problems. According to

Matthew Crawford, "Attention is a resource-a person has only so much of

it." Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck add to that definition:

Attention is focused mental engagement on a particular item of

information. Items come into our awareness, we attend to a particular

item, and then we decide whether to act.

Supporting Source: What is

Surveillance capitalism?

Surveillance capitalism is a concept in political economics which

denotes the widespread collection and commodification of personal data

by corporations. This phenomenon is distinct from government

surveillance, though the two can reinforce each other. The concept of

surveillance capitalism, as described by Shoshana Zuboff, is driven by a

profit-making incentive, and arose as advertising companies, led by

Google's AdWords, saw the possibilities of using personal data to target

consumers more precisely.

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are being used to track people and cars...

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