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The AI ethicist’s dilemma: fighting Big Tech by supporting Big Tech [PDF]
AI and Ethics, 2021 AbstractAssume that a researcher uncovers a major problem with how social media are currently used. What sort of challenges arise when they must subsequently decide whether or not to use social media to create awareness about this problem? This situation routinely occurs as ethicists navigate choices regarding how to effect change and potentially ...
Henrik Skaug Sætra +2 more
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From opt-in to obligation? : Examining the regulation of globally operating tech companies through alternative regulatory instruments from a material and territorial viewpoint [PDF]
, 2020 Modern society’s ever-increasing reliance on technology raises complex legal challenges. In the search for an efficient and effective regulatory response, more and more authorities – in particular the European Union – are relying on alternative ...
Vander Maelen, Carl
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Towards a political economy of technical systems: The case of Google
Big Data & Society, 2022 This research commentary proposes a conceptual framework for studying big tech companies as “technical systems” that organize much of their operation around the mastery and operationalization of key technologies that facilitate and drive their continuous
Bernhard Rieder
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A Systematic Literature Review on the Credit Risk Management of Big Tech Lending
Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (JRACR), 2021 This article reviews the relevant research of Big Tech Lending credit risk management in order to promote the research on the theory and method of credit risk management of Big Tech Lending. At present, relevant research results at home and abroad mainly
MuZhang, Cheng Cao
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Data as asset? The measurement, governance, and valuation of digital personal data by Big Tech
Big Data & Society, 2021 Digital personal data is increasingly framed as the basis of contemporary economies, representing an important new asset class. Control over these data assets seems to explain the emergence and dominance of so-called “Big Tech” firms, consisting of Apple,
Kean Birch, DT Cochrane, Callum Ward
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Big tech, big data and the new world of digital health
Global Health Journal, 2021 This commentary shows the exponential growth of digital health and the accompanying explosion of health data. It discusses three major shifts in the global health landscape. The first will be the move of the big tech companies into healthcare, the second
Jane Thomason
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What if Facebook goes down? Ethical and legal considerations for the demise of big tech
Internet Policy Review, 2020 Society is becoming increasingly dependent on data-rich, “Big Tech” platforms and social networks, such as Facebook and Google. But what happens to our data when these companies close or fail?
Carl Öhman, Nikita Aggarwal
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 AbstractIn this paper we explore the likely implications of the entry of Big Tech platforms into retail banking and the appropriate response of regulators and policy makers to this new industry development. We find that the entry of Big Tech platforms may transform the banking industry in radical ways: although it may possibly increase competition to ...
Miguel de la Mano, Jorge Padilla
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Making the Car “Platform Ready”: How Big Tech Is Driving the Platformization of Automobility
Social Media + Society, 2022 “Big Tech” platform companies like Alphabet (Google), Apple, and Amazon are deeply invested in the future of automobility—from developing car-specific interfaces and self-driving technology to establishing business partnerships with automakers.
Sam Hind +2 more
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The rule of law, the separation of powers, and Big Tech [PDF]
Pravni ZapisiThe growing influence of Big Tech, backed by technological advancement and platformization, poses significant challenges to traditional concepts of the rule of law and the separation of powers.
Sahadžić Maja
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