HANNA ZIADY: Technology firms now have financial services sector in their sights
Big tech becomes society's new wrecking ball
27 October 2019 - 18:01
When did big tech displace banking as the industry with the most power to harm society? It has become what banks were to society 10 years ago: a wrecking ball.
By big tech I mean companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Google. Companies that are rewriting the rules for how society functions: from the way we buy things and pay for things, to our political views and the way we interact with one another on a daily basis...
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