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Google is collecting data on schoolkids
Some say it’s okay because the firm supplies a lot of free software and hardware to schools
Google Powering China’s Snoop Culture
They’ve suppressed the memo but can’t suppress the uproar around it
Digital dictatorship?
China’s “social credit” system coming under scrutiny
Senior Google scientist quits over Google’s censorship in China
He believes it “contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights”Some believe that any censorship system that a human being can develop can somehow be got around by another human being. China may provide a way of testing that.
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Google branches out into politics
Unfortunately, the only political model it would likely know is: One-party stateThe unchallenged manipulation of search engine results during elections is a new phenomenon made possible by the domination of the internet by a few big players.
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Silicon Valley grew old before it grew up
By April of this year, 100 employees were complaining about the Google groupthinkGiant Google’s Vulnerable Spot
Social media are free because we are both the content and the market
George Gilder: Life after Google Will Be Okay
People will take ownership of their own data, cutting out the giant “middle man”In his new book, he calls the successor era he envisions the “cryptocosm,” referring to the private encryption of data, represented by technologies such as blockchain.
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