The paper, “Digital Trade Rules: A Disastrous New Constitution for the Global Economy, By and for Big Tech,” by Deborah James, provides a detailed look at the efforts of companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft to secure new accords at the World Trade Organization (WTO) that would allow them greater access to, and ownership of, data with minimal restrictions.
The largest corporations in the history of the world – Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft – are seeking to use ‘trade’ rules to rig the rules of the global (digital) economy to enable them to collect more data, exercise more control over our lives and their workers, and amass ever more profit.
During the coronavirus crisis, cities around the world seized the opportunity to close roads to cars and to expand pedestrian zones and cycle lanes. But what future will these initiatives have when normality is restored?
Call for contributions to edited volume “The Crisis and Future of Representative Democracy”
Report on “The future of health and elderly care in Sweden in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact”
Call for contributions to edited volume “The Crisis and Future of Representative Democracy”
A disastrous new constitution for the global economy written by and for Big Tech
Click on a country to go to the corresponding overview page:
