‘Surveillance is the business model of the internet,’ Berkman and Belfer fellow says As published in The Harvard Gazette BY Liz Mineo Harvard Staff Writer August 24, 2017 In the internet era, consumers seem increasingly resigned to giving up fundamental aspects of their privacy for convenience in using their phones and computers, and have grudgingly accepted […]
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Published in Jacobin Magazine AN INTERVIEW WITH GREG MEEKER As part of its anti-union agenda, Alberta’s right-wing government has wrested control of workers’ retirement funds from a joint board that gave them a guaranteed say. Workers in the province are preparing to mount a legal challenge to the power grab. In 2019, Alberta’s United […]
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Is the online rebellion of small investors a sign of a wider revolt against capitalism, or financialization in a new form? ROAR Magazine Author_ Max Haiven February 3, 2021 There is an apocryphal story that, in the ancient mediterranean, slaves being transported to market in the hold of a ship realized that, though otherwise powerless, […]
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A coalition of people on the Reddit forum WallStreetBets, brought the US financial system to its knees. Specifically, they took a random failing company, GameStop, artificially made it one of the most valuable companies on earth, and utterly screwed over a bunch of short-sellers.
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There’s no need to invent conspiracy theories. The attempt by global elites to subvert local democracy is fully on and in plain view By Rupa Subramanya Feb 02, 2021 National Post Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, seen in a file photo from Oct. 28, 2020, sits on the board of trustees of the World Economic Forum […]
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This past week a video game company in trouble, Gamestop, became the center of media attention. Day traders had driven up the company’s stock price by thousands of percent in just one day. The mainstream media narrative was the ‘small guy’ investor challenged the big boys of finance who had bet Gamestop stock price would […]
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BUT the High Court has blocked a bid to sue Google for allegedly unlawfully taking data from 4.4 million UK iPhone users. 8 October 2018 The legal case was mounted by a group called Google You Owe Us, led by former Which director Richard Lloyd. It sought compensation for people whose handsets were tracked by […]
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