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The Attention Economy is the Addiction Economy: A Call for Emerging Tech for Good

How behavioural science is being used to stop brands taking advantage of consumer biases

Power in the Age of the Feudal Internet

Vassal-cities: What city Halls are offering to Amazon

The algorithms Facebook and other tech companies use to boost engagement – and increase profits – have led to spectacular failures of sensitivity and worse. How can we fight back?

Bittersweet Mysteries of Machine Learning (A Provocation)

EU's General Data Protection Regulation - Wikipedia

Can A.I. Be Taught to Explain Itself? - NYTimes.com

Facebook Still Lets People Target Ads by Race and Ethnicity

John Naughton: "How a half-educated tech elite delivered us into chaos. If our supersmart tech leaders knew a bit more about history or philosophy we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in now"

Anyone who wants to pay for access to addicted users can work with Facebook and YouTube.

The tech industry can’t hide from the information war, particularly when its own creations are being weaponized.

It’s Time to Tax Companies for Using Our Personal Data

Sean Parker, former president of Facebook: Facebook was designed to exploit human "vulnerability"

The Fragmented Surveillance State. Forget Big Brother surveillance. We have thousands of little brothers and sisters.

Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota): "How did big tech come to control so many aspects of our lives?"

Something is wrong on the internet. On the role of Google's YouTube in kids traumatizing

How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met

Why we need to regulate the tech platforms. Companies should be made to open up the black box of their algorithms. RANA FOROOHAR @ Financial Times

Video: "Towards High-Tech Feudalism: How the Digital Economy Enslaves Us" Evgeny Morozov

The world is no longer dominated by nation-states alone. We have moved into a non-state, net-state era.

How Google and Amazon are hooking kids from an early age