The coronavirus crisis underscores the power and dominance of big tech companies, and that novel legislative approaches are required to regulate them
Apple and Google, who last Friday jointly | announced new capabilities for contact tracing coronavirus carriers at scale …
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Nicolas Jodal
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Changes that might have taken 10 or 15 years, simply because of the stickiness of the status quo, may now happen in far less time." Coronavirus Clarity https://stratechery.com/...
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Seth Berman
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Outstanding piece by @benthompson: The pretense is over and tech answers to no one https://stratechery.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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Ahmed Al Omran
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“What we desperately need is a new conversation that deals with the world as it will be and increasingly is, not as we delude ourselves into what once was and wish still were.” https://stratechery.com/...
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@stratechery
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Coronavirus Clarity https://stratechery.com/... The coronavirus crisis is making clear just how powerful tech companies are; hopefully this leads to a much more productive conversation about how that power should be utilized or regulated.
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Dare Obasanjo
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This article has convinced me that the contact tracing APIs Apple & Google are adding to their mobile OSes won't be useful because politics will get in the way of public health. Contact tracing requires human intervention & widespread adoption to work. https://stratechery.com/...