"The entire business model of Silicon Valley is surveillance."

- Carole Cadwalladr, investigative journalist

Carole's TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was the most watched talk of the year.

#TedTalk #Privacy #Surveillance #SiliconValley
https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like

"The entire business model of Silicon Valley is surveillance."

- Carole Cadwalladr, investigative journalist

Carole's TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was the most watched talk of the year.

#TedTalk #Privacy #Surveillance #SiliconValley
https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like

CNBC: U.S. Supreme Court allows order forcing Google to make app store reforms. “The justices turned down Google’s request to temporarily freeze parts of the injunction won by Epic in its lawsuit accusing the tech giant of monopolizing how consumers access apps on Android devices and pay for transactions within apps.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/08/cnbc-u-s-supreme-court-allows-order-forcing-google-to-make-app-store-reforms/

CNBC: U.S. Supreme Court allows order forcing Google to make app store reforms. “The justices turned down Google’s request to temporarily freeze parts of the injunction won by Epic in its lawsuit accusing the tech giant of monopolizing how consumers access apps on Android devices and pay for transactions within apps.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/08/cnbc-u-s-supreme-court-allows-order-forcing-google-to-make-app-store-reforms/

New York Times: Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook’s Political Ads. This link goes to a gift article. “The ads are a lucrative part of Facebook’s advertising revenue that, the project’s researchers and others say, has led the company to turn a blind eye to a flood of low-quality or deceptive content, spam and in some cases outright fraud on the platform.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/04/new-york-times-spam-and-scams-proliferate-in-facebooks-political-ads/

New York Times: Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook’s Political Ads. This link goes to a gift article. “The ads are a lucrative part of Facebook’s advertising revenue that, the project’s researchers and others say, has led the company to turn a blind eye to a flood of low-quality or deceptive content, spam and in some cases outright fraud on the platform.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/04/new-york-times-spam-and-scams-proliferate-in-facebooks-political-ads/