As of 2019, Big Tech companies were not particularly popular as a new poll shows that negative views have increased since then, with only 34% of Americans now expressing any level of positive opinion.
Big Tech companies are feeling more pressure in Europe with the proposal of two new antitrust policies. Together the "Digital Markets Act" and "Digital Services Act" would limit use of personal and business data.
The FTC is expanding its investigations into the business dealings of Big Tech. Nine of the industry's biggest names have been asked to provide the agency with information about their data practices.
Recent Senate hearing on the Section 230 publishing protections that Big Tech platforms enjoy did not produce much in the way of productive results, but did formally open a federal-level dialogue.
Unlike the 18th and 19th century trading companies, today's tech giants use monopoly not to the benefit of the crown and a nation, but instead for their own personal benefit and the benefit of those wealthy enough to own their stock.
Big Tech companies answered to the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee in Wednesday's hearing, which surprised observers with the intensity of its questioning.
List of data privacy violations is still growing since the Cambridge Analytica scandal two years ago and will not stop unless the tech giants are forced to rewrite their business models.
Microsoft announced a breach where they uncovered misconfigured security rules in one internal database that exposed 250 million customer service records for almost whole of December.
Contract for the Web wants to create a better internet at a time when huge corporations are failing to respect privacy, governments can no longer be counted on to provide affordable and accessible Internet, and citizens are no longer interested promoting civil discourse.
U.S. states are showing their disapproval of how federal government has dealt with Big Tech so far by launching antitrust probe into firms like Facebook and Google.
