Big Tech

2021-02-17T12:57:18+01:00

Ben Thomas on Stratchery.com writes why he considers Tesla a “meme company”: It turned out, though, that TSLA was itself a meme, one about a car company, but also sustainability, …

2021-02-17T12:54:27+01:00

Interesting new article from Shoshana Zuboff at The New York Times. She recaps some of her arguments on surveillance capitalism, but also links it with more recent events related …

2020-12-23T17:38:18+01:00

This Bloomberg article deals with an interesting controversy surrounding the introduction of a feature called “App Tracking Transparency,” which aims to give users the option to …

2020-12-23T12:07:00+01:00

The Markup reviews reviewed different examples of controversial uses of machine learning algorithms in 2020: Every year there are myriad new examples of algorithms that were either …

2020-11-15T09:49:56+01:00

The Register reported on the announcement of Apple to introduce “privacy ’nutrition labels’” …

2020-11-05T09:50:18+01:00

In article from the Financial Time on how Big Tech can “best tackle conspiracy theories,” the author shares some interesting insights from research done by a group of ethnographers …

2020-10-12T11:46:03+02:00

An article from CNET reports on the use of “keyword warrants” in police investigations the US: Typically, probable cause is needed for search warrants, which are associated with a …

2020-08-22T13:45:49+02:00

From an article The New York Times titled “Big Tech’s Domination of Business Reaches New Heights”: The tech companies’ dominance of the stock market is propelled by their …

2020-08-21T10:37:36+02:00

The Markup reports on some internal documents of Google they have obtained that help train employees to not use certain words which could trigger regulators: As Google faces at …