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  • How 2021 was the year governments really started to wise up against big tech

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    Tuffley, David
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    Tuffley, David J.
    Year published
    2021
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    Abstract
    After all the bad press tech companies have received, would anyone still be surprised to learn the outwardly smiling face of social media conceals a sophisticated data-collection industry? This year’s headlines delivered news of an array of concerning data and privacy violations from the world’s biggest tech players. But interestingly, it also seemed to be the year governments around the world addressed the problem head on.After all the bad press tech companies have received, would anyone still be surprised to learn the outwardly smiling face of social media conceals a sophisticated data-collection industry? This year’s headlines delivered news of an array of concerning data and privacy violations from the world’s biggest tech players. But interestingly, it also seemed to be the year governments around the world addressed the problem head on.
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    Journal Title
    The Conversation
    Publisher URI
    https://theconversation.com/how-2021-was-the-year-governments-really-started-to-wise-up-against-big-tech-172871
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2021. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
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    Political economy and social change
    4601
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/413557
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