Will Facebook really pull out of Europe?
Facebook is threatening to pull the plug on its operations in Europe following a court order demanding it to stop transferring data to the US. But experts doubt that the strategy will be effective. A...
View Article‘Taking funding from Big Tech is problematic,’ says inaugural director of...
The inaugural director of Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics in AI has signalled his opposition to Silicon Valley giants funding tech ethics research. John Tasioulas, a philosophy professor who...
View ArticleNHSX launches recruitment drive for senior policy officials
NHSX, the tech unit tasked with overseeing the health service’s digital transformation, has launched a recruitment drive for senior policy officials. The unit announced on Thursday (25 September) that...
View ArticleWhy we must break the constraints of the industrial model of government
Covid-19 has shown the importance of a strong state, but also revealed a chasm between expectations and capacity. Governments have struggled to scale their response to the pandemic, while deep...
View ArticleEU draft rules strike at the heart of Big Tech’s business model
The EU is planning to force Big Tech to share its data with smaller rivals, according to a draft version of the Digital Services Act seen by the Financial Times. The draft legislation reads that tech...
View ArticleUnion urges government to reign in employee surveillance tech
Prospect Union is calling for the government to reign in employers using invasive surveillance tools – such as keystroke, web camera or wearables tech – to monitor staff working from home. Since the...
View ArticleCourt ruling threatens EU’s mass surveillance regimes – and UK data adequacy
Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the mass surveillance programmes conducted by British, French and Belgian security agencies are not tenable under EU law. The ruling...
View ArticleGoogle antitrust case could topple ‘monoculture’ in search, says former ad chief
“It’s not wrong to be big and successful,” says Sridhar Ramaswamy, founder of search start-up Neeva. “It is, however, not right to use that power to squelch competition.” The former head of Google’s...
View ArticleWhy Vestager’s antitrust fight with Amazon risks exposing the limits of her...
At midday on 10 November, Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s high-profile enforcer of competition law, unveiled the preliminary findings of a landmark investigation into Amazon. The online retailer, the...
View ArticleWill Biden call off Trump’s war on Big Tech?
On 6 October, less than four weeks before the US election, the House of Representatives’ antitrust subcommittee presented a striking prediction of what might happen if the data economy is allowed to...
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