Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce among leading tech firms with government contracts tied to immigrant detention By Brett Wilkins As much of the world recoils in horror at continuing reports of refugees, including young children, being imprisoned, abused and even dying in US concentration camps, scores of businesses big and small Read more…
There are ethics in tech. Even within the deepest, darkest corporatist recesses of tech, where profits reign über alles, ethics can be found. Witness Amazon Employees for Climate Justice. This intrepid group of 7,683-and-counting Amazonians burst onto the scene last month when they fired off an open letter on Medium Read more…
Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren published a Medium post on Friday calling for the breakup of big technology companies in service of “protecting the future of the Internet” by encouraging competition and innovation. “Today’s big tech companies have too much power — too much power over our economy, our Read more…