LFI Course Materials 4/Week eight

Week 8: The Global Power of Big Tech Companies

• September 10th 9 - 11 Pacific/12 - 2 Eastern Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9129428892

Overview

list of big tech companies eg palantir; mckinsey data use//covid; tech worker organizing against sexual harassment; privacy as consent, abuse of big tech founders

Readings

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/05/uks-covid-19-health-data-contracts-with-google-and-palantir-finally-emerge/

• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html
• https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military-tech-workers
• http://www.uncomputing.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/commercial-trolling.feb2014.pdf
• https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59vex5/be-good-for-goodness-sake

Another 540 Million Facebook Users Data Has Been Exposed by April Glaser 15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook Regulators Around the World Are Circling Facebook YouTube’s Search Results for “Abortion” Show Exactly What Anti-Abortion Activists Want Women to See by April Glaser Facebook while black: Users call it getting 'Zucked,' say talking about racism is censored as hate speech Facebook Can't Clean Up Its Data Spill by April Glaser

Guest lecturer

Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley