09-08-2018 12:00 via theguardian.com

Can Silicon Valley workers rein in Big Tech from within? | Ben Tarnoff

In our undemocratic digital world, people have little power to shape the tools that affect their lives. But tech workers could change thatAn unprecedented wave of rank-and-file rebellion is sweeping Big Tech. At one company after another, employees are refusing to help the US government commit human rights abuses at home and abroad.At Google, workers organized to shut down Project Maven, a Pentagon project that uses machine learning to improve targeting for drone strikes – and won. At Amaz
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