cheryl
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Peter Lewis's 2020s vision: stop glibly signing over your data and take control - The Guardian
In the era of surveillance capitalism, we need to create a new type of trust organisation – one that can properly protect and value our data
The twenty-teens were the decade when the great tech disruption caught up with us, with the implications of unregulated hyper-connectivity permeating our lives in unexpected and disturbing ways.
The good news is we have begun to give voice to these pressing issues: the destruction of the public sphere, the danger of unchecked machine learning, the way our personal information is driving a new model of surveillance capitalism.
As the 2020s dawn, lawmakers too are beginning to respond. When the clock clicked over to 1 January, the Californian Consumer Privacy Act came into law, giving citizens in that state the right to access and, critically, delete information being collected about them by businesses.
In the era of surveillance capitalism, we need to create a new type of trust organisation – one that can properly protect and value our data
The twenty-teens were the decade when the great tech disruption caught up with us, with the implications of unregulated hyper-connectivity permeating our lives in unexpected and disturbing ways.
The good news is we have begun to give voice to these pressing issues: the destruction of the public sphere, the danger of unchecked machine learning, the way our personal information is driving a new model of surveillance capitalism.
As the 2020s dawn, lawmakers too are beginning to respond. When the clock clicked over to 1 January, the Californian Consumer Privacy Act came into law, giving citizens in that state the right to access and, critically, delete information being collected about them by businesses.