📗 Libro en inglés THE TECH COUP

An insider offers a forceful critique of Big Tech s steady erosion of democracy The New Yorker and describes what must be done to stop it Over the past decades under the cover of innovation technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from governments themselves Facial recognition firms track citizens for police surveillance Cryptocurrency has wiped out the personal savings of millions and threatens the stability of the global financial system Spyware companies sell digital intelligence tools to anyone who can afford them This new reality where unregulated technology has become a forceful instrument for autocrats around the world is terrible news for democracies and citizens In The Tech Coup Marietje Schaake offers a behind the scenes account of how technology companies crept into nearly every corner of our lives and our governments She takes us beyond the headlines to high stakes meetings with human rights defenders business leaders computer scientists and politicians to show how technologies from social media to artificial intelligence have gone from being heralded as utopian to undermining the pillars of our democracies To reverse this existential power imbalance Schaake outlines game changing s