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2024

Big Tech could give this 19th-century antiabortion law an Orwellian facelift

As you read this, Big Tech’s surveillance practices are already putting abortion seekers at risk. Tech companies have built multibillion-dollar empires by collecting, storing, and selling as much user data as possible. And despite their promises to the contrary, many of these companies are still hoarding abortion seekers’ sensitive location and search history data.

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Tech Policy Press
Jan 30, 2025
Big Tech Chose a Side. Here’s What’s Next.

The recent actions of Big Tech CEOs have made their alliances clear: Despite installing some pro-democracy window dressing in recent years, tech companies have steadily and systematically captured our means of communication and surrendered them to the MAGA universe. In the US, the question now is whether Democrats and others who oppose MAGA politics will recognize the alliance between the far right and Big Tech – and take steps to rein in this dangerous turn toward extremism before we lose our democracy altogether.

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Mercury News
Aug 16, 2020
Facebook is a hate-for-profit machine. Here’s a quick fix

Facebook says it brings the world closer together, but its own research shows it divides us.

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