While surveillance-based business models are deployed globally affecting billions in the global south, Surveillance capitalism and Surveillance-based technology are often studied from a US and Western context. This results in the negative effects of surveillance-based technology on racialized and global south communities not being widely understood. Additionally the solutions designed in the North are unlikely to work without localization as there are economic, political and social differences in the South absent in the North. This talk will use Sub-Saharan Africa and the experience of “Blackness” as a microcosm of the commodification and dehumanization of humanity in general.