COMMENTARY BY GREG BENSINGER
Google’s Privacy Backpedal Shows Why It’s So Hard Not To Be Evil
Technology companies’ blithe disregard for consumer desires is an outgrowth of decades of permissive or nonexistent government oversight. Regulators ought to consider how Big Tech’s monopoly power further empowers the companies to ignore their own customers, in part by gobbling up competitors that offer more consumer-friendly services. Whatever the outcome of the Arizona case, if Google and others are willing to continue offering users choices, they should also be willing to respect them.
A new audit warns that Facebook may be “driving people toward self-reinforcing echo chambers of extremism.”
