Breaking up with Big Tech: A human rights-based argument for tackling Big Tech's market power - Amnesty International
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/POL30/0226/2025/en/
#privacy #bigtech #alphabet #google #meta #microsoft #amazon #apple
Breaking up with Big Tech: A human rights-based argument for tackling Big Tech's market power - Amnesty International
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/POL30/0226/2025/en/
#privacy #bigtech #alphabet #google #meta #microsoft #amazon #apple
The worst part? It's the growing loss of trust in @EUCommission, driven by a dangerous slide into proposals like "Chat Control" and their dystopian approach to age verification which, laughably, would require a Google a/o Apple-approved device and account.
Data, service sovereignty, my ass.
The worst part? It's the growing loss of trust in @EUCommission, driven by a dangerous slide into proposals like "Chat Control" and their dystopian approach to age verification which, laughably, would require a Google a/o Apple-approved device and account.
Data, service sovereignty, my ass.
The rapid data center build-out is driving sales and stock prices of companies from Caterpillar to Trane, but the digital gold rush won’t last forever. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/18/world/ai-bubble-bursting/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #artificialintelligence #caterpillar #siemens #microsoft #alphabet#metaplatforms #amazoncom #xai #blackstone
Perplexity bietet Google 34,5 Milliarden US-Dollar für Chrome-Browser
Ein US-Gericht könnte Google demnächst zum Verkauf von Chrome zwingen. Das KI-Start-up Perplexity legt aus heiterem Himmel bereits ein Milliarden-Angebot vor.
#Alphabet#Browser#Chrome#Google#Internet#Kartellrecht#Wettbewerb#Wirtschaft #news
Australia’s internet watchdog says social media firms are still "turning a blind eye” to online child sex abuse material on their platforms, singling out YouTube as having been unresponsive to its inquiries. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/06/tech/australia-regulator-youtube-child-abuse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #youtube #australia #socialmedia #children #childabuse #apple #google #alphabet #meta #snap #whatsapp
Three Republican House lawmakers on Monday asked the CEOs of Alphabet, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft if they have adopted adequate safeguards to address growing national security concerns on submarine communications cables. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/22/tech/us-tech-ceos-submarine-cables/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #alphabet #facebook #meta #amazon #microsoft #internet #oceans #us #china #russia
Great infographic of companies involved in the genocide of Palestinians. Taken from this article, which also has more information on each: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they
#politics #bigtech #degoogle #aljazeera #palestine #gaza #israel #genocide #lockheedmartin #ibm #microsoft #alphabet #google #amazon #palantir #chevron #cat #airbnb #volvo #bp
Panel: Which global companies are complicit in genocide & profiting from occupation’ in Palestine?
"Francesca Albanese’s landmark report identified Microsoft, Amazon and Google as just some of the major United States tech firms helping Israel sustain its genocide in Gaza."
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story
#GazaGenocide#CorporateComplicity#USPol#EuroPol#IBM#Alphabet#Microsoft#BDS .
Panel: Which global companies are complicit in genocide & profiting from occupation’ in Palestine?
"Francesca Albanese’s landmark report identified Microsoft, Amazon and Google as just some of the major United States tech firms helping Israel sustain its genocide in Gaza."
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story
#GazaGenocide#CorporateComplicity#USPol#EuroPol#IBM#Alphabet#Microsoft#BDS .
From economy of occupation to economy of genocide…
🌍 The UN Human Rights Council report investigates how a network of corporate actors (companies, investors and service providers) is deeply involved in sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial policies, resulting in systemic displacement, #apartheid-like conditions, and acts like what the Rapporteur describes as #genocide
🧑🏽⚖️ On paper now
#OHCHR#UN #bigtech #palestine #israel #microsoft #alphabet #amazon #palantir #thiel
From economy of occupation to economy of genocide…
🌍 The UN Human Rights Council report investigates how a network of corporate actors (companies, investors and service providers) is deeply involved in sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial policies, resulting in systemic displacement, #apartheid-like conditions, and acts like what the Rapporteur describes as #genocide
🧑🏽⚖️ On paper now
#OHCHR#UN #bigtech #palestine #israel #microsoft #alphabet #amazon #palantir #thiel
Great infographic of companies involved in the genocide of Palestinians. Taken from this article, which also has more information on each: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they
#politics #bigtech #degoogle #aljazeera #palestine #gaza #israel #genocide #lockheedmartin #ibm #microsoft #alphabet #google #amazon #palantir #chevron #cat #airbnb #volvo #bp
Britain's competition regulator has finally come up with a plan to control Google's search business, but a shift in the political wind in favor of big tech makes it more of a bark than a bite. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/26/tech/uk-politics-antitrust-google/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #google #alphabet #tech #antitrust #uk
Day by day, service by service we can detach ourselves from the underlord grips.
TIL that I dont need google anymore for reliable avg exchange rate values of currency
#OpenSource#Alphabet#Google#Android#Services #programming #currency#exchangeRate#EUR#SRD
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