The recent literature on digital techniques has exploded in a spiral of denunciations against algorithms. They would be nothing but neoliberal techniques by which a new stage of capitalism would globally subsume societies, enclosing them in an infinite repetition guaranteed by data extraction and continuous surveillance. This essay problematizes surveillance capitalism – one of the main focal points of this debate. Furthermore, it repositions the split between surveillance and security in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of algorithmic struggles. As a result, we argue that surveillance capitalism hides the perspective of work and struggles, throwing us into political impasse and immobility.