Google CEO Sundar Pichai says GDPR shows that “regulation can get it wrong” and “we are still a small part of the overall information ecosystem”
For Google, the Techlash arrived with a vengeance last week. After years of mounting angst about the power of Big Tech … Tweets: @rikefranke , @financialtimes , @rachelcoldicutt , @mikebutcher , and @johnthornhillft Tweets: Ulrike Franke / @rikefranke : “Like it or not, for Google, government intervention is now an inescapable fact of life.” I'm choosing to like it. https://giftarticle.ft.com/... @financialtimes : For Sundar Pichai, Google's chief executive officer since 2015, defending the company against multiplying legal and legislative threats has become almost a full-time job https://www.ft.com/... Rachel Coldicutt / @rachelcoldicutt : “I just call it AI.” Extremely coy interview with Sundar Pichai in which he attempts to do an, “Oh, this old thing?” downplay of what is presumably hundreds of thousands of different applications of data-driven decisions https://giftarticle.ft.com/... Mike Butcher / @mikebutcher : Self-serving argument by a monopolist. https://twitter.com/... John Thornhill / @johnthornhillft : Interesting: the future of search will be “what you're seeing” not just what you type in says @sundarpichai in interview with @RichardWaters https://www.ft.com/... via @financialtimes