An interview with Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff on her frustrations with fragmented efforts to restrain tech companies, privacy, and more
These are uncertain times for Silicon Valley. Tech companies are firing staff who they hired in the pandemic. Tweets: @fatassinari , @sroach_econ , @patrickfrench , @henrymance , @casparhenderson , @...
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EU Parliament passed Digital Services Act, including provisions banning targeted ads based on highly sensitive personal data, limiting dark patterns, and more
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Facebook's refusal to pay a misguided media tax, pushed by Rupert Murdoch, is a defense of the open web and criticizing it for rejecting a link tax is bizarre
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Profile of Shoshana Zuboff, a Harvard professor who coined the term “surveillance capitalism” to describe tech giants and their data practices
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