Big Tech Insists They’re Protecting Americans From China While Importing Chinese-Style Social Controls
Insisting that antitrust enforcers pull their punches or risk impairing our ability to face the threats from China is nothing short of a protection racket at a global scale.
How Mass Tech Surveillance Could Turn Us All Into Britney Spears
When one’s livelihood and privileges depend on submission to constant monitoring, you have to wonder how long Americans will have the choice to opt out.
Artificial Intelligence Expert Explains How Big Tech Manipulates What You Think
An Oxford University-trained artificial intelligence expert explains the machinery behind Big Tech’s thought suppression, AI speech police, and groupthink on campus.
Tlaib Insists It’s Not Racist To Say White People Can’t Be Police Analysts
From a woman who has been quick to accuse opponents of racism, the remarks were shocking. Even more unbelievable was Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s op-ed alleging her words ‘weren’t racist.’
Skeptical Of Big Tech? Be More Careful With Your Data
A lesson of the FaceApp Challenge? One non-regulatory way to help correct the excesses of Big Tech is for us to become smarter users.
Let’s Evaluate Palantir’s Berkeley Dust-Up Through Tolkien’s Lens
The University of California, Berkeley has cut financial ties with Palantir, Peter Thiel’s Tolkien-inspired data company.
How Identity Politics Plays Right Into The Hands Of Big Business
Advertisers are specifically targeting individuals based on their group identity, and algorithms are driving our choices as much as we’re driving them.
Review: Big Tech Is Sowing The Seeds Of Its Own Destruction
In his latest book, ‘Life After Google,’ futurist and entrepreneur George Gilder warns that Silicon Valley’s big tech companies will soon be undone by their own arrogance and new technologies such as blockchain.
It’s Time For Americans To Give Informed Consent To Scraping Their Data. Here’s How To Start
People should have the right to know how digital services use their personal data before consenting to its use, and in an easy to understand and easily accessible way.
These 3 Student Data Bills Could Ruin Your Kid’s Life
Sorry, but I don’t happen to believe that lifelong surveillance and surveillance-based manipulation of my choices should be the price of a public education.
Bullying A Leftist Think Tank Pierces Google’s Carefully Cultivated ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Image
Google shows what ‘Silicon Valley progressivism’ means: being the Left’s enforcers in the culture wars, in exchange for dispensation for economic sins.
No One Expects The Google Inquisition, But It’s Coming
The Google memo controversy could tear up the implicit social contract we’ve all accepted with the big technology companies to whom we entrust our data.
Researchers Have Begun To Realize That Big Data Presents Big Problems
A new book by math expert Cathy O’Neil, ‘Weapons of Math Destruction,’ discusses the social and economic problems created relying too much on algorithms.
Bill Would Surveil Americans For Life By Unifying Government Databases
A federal student unit-record system would enable the government to collect personally identifiable information on college students and link that data to lifelong workforce data.
Everything You Thought You Knew About Baseball Might Be Wrong
Keith Law’s new book ‘Smart Baseball’ proves to be an indispensable (and math-free!) guide for fans seeking to understand moneyball and the blizzard of new statistics that are reshaping America’s national pastime.
It’s Not Government’s Job To Hide Your Browsing History, It’s Yours
The problem is not whether the proposed Internet privacy rules were good for consumers, but that they would be easily circumvented with the shell game of corporate subsidiaries.
4 Questions About The Fertility Industry’s Lack Of Oversight
Meet the industry that conjures life and often causes death yet argues, with a straight face, for ‘professional self-regulation.’
Big Brother’s My Keeper, My Soul Shall Want
President Obama’s team has added meat to his My Brother’s Keeper initiative. Here’s a deprecatory ode.
The Prove It To Me Society
Life is, in a very real way, an act of faith—but a reasonable faith, not one driven by feelings.
The App-Driven Life
Like Isaac Asimov’s Hari Seldon, people continue to foolishly fantasize that iWatches, apps, and big data will end the instability of freedom.
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