19th-century staff management approaches don’t work

Faced with falling margins after the Covid bubble burst, Big Tech let thousands of staff go on the assumption that they could rehire them when things got better at the end of the year, but they might have miscalculated, according an Intuit boss.

At lower rates and without benefits

Some of Seattle's biggest tech companies are trying to hire back recently sacked workers through agencies where they will go back to the same office with less salary and zero company benefits.

And there is nothing you can do about it 

A German activitist, Matthias Marx, claims he has had his face stolen by Clearview AI and his features mapped and monetised by three companies without his permission.

White House powerless to stop it

Attempts by the White House to bring in a bill of rights for the age of algorithms has shown how weak elected governments are over the money and power of Big Tech.

Users should pay

Europes big telcos including BT, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom want users to pay for the costs of data fuelled by the global streaming and internet boom.

This will go down well 

After failing to get Big Tech to pay any significant amounts of tax, the government's of France, Italy and Spain are stepping up pressure on the European Commission to come up with legislation that ensures Big Tech firms partly finance telecoms infrastructure.

While the US Supreme court lets them do what they like

While the US Supreme Court appears to be letting Big Tech get away with murder, foreign governments are taking a different approach.

Federal government moves to protect consumers unconsitutional

The US Supremes might be making a move to protect Big Tech from efforts made by the federal government to restrain their power.

The only way is Ethics 

Search engine outfit Google is not rushing to turn its cloud into AI based decision making.

Terrified of losing the election if their employers get cross

A bipartisan legislative effort to rein in the nation's largest tech companies is facing fresh resistance from a faction of Senate Democrats who are worried that Big Tech will cut off their lobbying money before they go into an election.