The Tech Coup (eBook)

How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley

Marietje Schaake (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24118-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 itOver 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 realitywhere unregulated technology has become a forceful instrument for autocrats around the worldis 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 technologiesfrom social media to artificial intelligencehave gone from being heralded as utopian to undermining the pillars of our democracies. To reverse this existential power imbalance, Schaake outlines game-changing solutions to empower elected officials and citizens alike. Democratic leaders canand mustresist the influence of corporate lobbying and reinvent themselves as dynamic, flexible guardians of our digital world.Drawing on her experiences in the halls of the European Parliament and among Silicon Valley insiders, Schaake offers a frightening look at our modern tech-obsessed worldand a clear-eyed view of how democracies can build a better future before it is too late.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.9.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Accountability • Attacks • authoritarianism • Big Tech • Bitcoin • cases • Citizens • civil • commercial • companies • Content • Corporate • Country • Data • Data, Internet • Decisions • Democracy • democratic • digital • Discrimination • disinformation • Dutch • Election • Elections • Enforcement • ensure • Europe • Facebook • Google • Governance • Governance, Power • Government • How Technology Broke Democracy: And What We Can Do To Save it • How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley • how to support better technology policies • Information • Infrastructure • Innovation • Intelligence • Internet • Investments • Lack • Law • Leaders • legal • Marietje Schaake • Market • media • Microsoft • officials • Online • Oversight • platforms • Policy • Politics • Power • Principles • privacy • Products • protection • Regulation • Regulatory • result • rights • Rule of Law • Rules • Sector • security • Services • Silcon • Silicon • Social Media • Software • Surveillance • Systems • Tech • tech legislation • technological • Technology • technology in politics • The Tech Coup • Transparency • Trust • Users • Valley
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24118-X / 069124118X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24118-0 / 9780691241180