Linkblog

Posted on December 5, 2019 by jjn1

• Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive Into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance The EFF’s analysis of third-party tracking.
• Big Tech’s Big Defector Interesting New Yorker profile of Roger McNamee, an early Facebook investor who has seen the light — and written a book to prove it.
• Capitalism needs the nation state more than the state needs it. Terrific essay by a great economist, Dani Rodrik. Should be required reading in Silicon Valley. And by tech elites everywhere.
• Mike Bloomberg has just made Trump look reasonable Scathing column by Jack Shafer about the conflicts of interest implicit in a media mogul running for president.