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Shareholder Actions and Social Justice in Tech

Shareholder Actions and Social Justice in Tech

You’re right in that the whole COVID-19 pandemic has increased the number of contacts and inquiries that are involved with surveillance of citizens. There is talk that the White House has been involved with various tech companies. And some of that may not be bad because technology can help address m any of the health issues involved with COVID-19, but—and it’s a big “but:” What we call the surveillance economy…that has been in the works for some time, and the government itself does not gather much of the data that people talk about. It is being gathered by private companies. It is being gathered by Facebook and Google and Twitter and these other companies, and one way or another the government accesses it. So the question is, “what are the rules and regulations involved in that?”