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One Medical provides primary healthcare services to people across the US.
Like the EU and unlike the US, China is trying to rein in the power of big tech companies. Can we learn from these efforts?
Despite its ‘innovator’ status, Apple usually wasn’t the first one to offer groundbreaking new features. But it knew how to adopt existing features in groundbreaking ways.
The EU’s proposed regulations don’t align with existing technology. They’re likely to fail – or to break the internet as we know it.
Frances Haugen, Timnit Gebru and Janneke Parrish are at the forefront of a group of high-profile women calling out big tech. Is there a connection between their gender and their role as whistleblowers?
A Meta spokesperson told The Conversation non-news pages had been taken down by mistake. Whistleblower allegations contradict this.
The age of the free speech free-for-all is over – but public online spaces are possible.
To complete his deal, Elon Musk now needs the nod from a majority of Twitter’s shareholders and US corporate regulators.
We are connecting ourselves, our homes and our workplaces to lots of internet-enabled devices: smartwatches, smart lightbulbs, toasters, fridges … How to keep all their data private?
Alphabet, Apple, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft have each taken some form of action against Russia — but the actual impact it will have isn’t clear.
Tech companies still make it difficult to get gadgets repaired.
Tech giants such as Spotify like to claim they are platforms, not publishers, and aren’t editorially responsible for the content they host. But with COVID threatening lives, they have to do better.
A number of legal cases were brought forward by regulators this year, in a bid to hold major tech companies accountable.
Today’s social media is plagued by racism and sexism. Without intentionally building the metaverse to be inclusive, it will be, too.
Big tech is increasingly capitalising on opportunities to consolidate their power, raising constitutional questions about legitimacy, rights and democracy in the digital age.
Pressure is mounting on Congress to take action on Facebook. Our panel of experts offers their top priorities: user control of data, banking-like oversight and resources to close the digital divide.
Corporate rebranding is fundamental to the spread of metacapitalism which uses increasingly sophisticated technology to shape, exploit and profit from human interaction.
Canada needs to overhaul its approach to addressing online harms if it wants to remain a human rights leader and champion of internet freedom.
Far from unassailable, Facebook and Google act like organisations terrified they are about to peak. We can make it harder for them to buy growth.
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Associate professor in regulation and governance, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, SOAR Fellow., University of Sydney
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and Professor of Management and Sociology, University of Michigan
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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