If 2019 was about “techlash,” the public backlash against Big Tech, 2020 will centre on a race between the world’s largest platform companies — particularly Google, Facebook and Amazon — and the regulators that want to bring them to heel. During their discussions at this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, delegates will consider how to create a global consensus on deployment of so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies. Margrethe Vestager, EU competition commissioner, has new powers allowing her to bring together the issues of privacy, monopoly and security. Read More...
If 2019 was about “techlash,” the public backlash against Big Tech, 2020 will centre on a race between the world’s largest platform companies — particularly Google, Facebook and Amazon — and the regulators that want to bring them to heel. During their discussions at this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, delegates will consider how to create a global consensus on deployment of so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies. Margrethe Vestager, EU competition commissioner, has new powers allowing her to bring together the issues of privacy, monopoly and security.
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