These busy days, it’s hard to keep track of all that you’ve been doing. You may not remember what websites you’ve visited, who you’ve talked to and texted on your phone, every angle of every room in your house, and your precise location at every waking moment. Well, we’re the big web platform companies. And […]
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Posted inEconomic Policy
How Digital Advertising Markets Really Work
They’re shaping our market, our democracy—our entire reality. If we’re going to fix them, we need to understand them.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Here’s the Real Trouble With Tech
Once you understand the tech giants are capturing unguarded human experience, their business makes sense.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The EU Leads the Way to Internet Privacy Over Profit
We should be rooting for the success of the General Data Protection Regulation.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Trump’s All-Too-Powerful Surveillance Infrastructure
President Trump’s penchant for naming ‘enemies’ echoes Richard Nixon’s, with one difference: Trump has a much bigger treasure trove of personal data at his disposal.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
No Exit: The Digital Edition
In her new book, Dragnet Nation, Julia Angwin shows how badly disadvantaged ordinary people are in the struggle for privacy online.