Call for action: Iraq Yazidis want Big Tech held to account for Islamic State crimes
Social media companies should be investigated over posts in which abducted Yazidi women and girls were trafficked by IS militants, activists and lawyers say. MAYA GEBEILY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Essay: TechnoKings rule. But at what cost?
Writing from London, MAL FLETCHER argues that while BigTech companies preach “equality, sharing and meritocracy”, their growth is often focused on drawing more and more power to themselves and their “elite” leaders…
Google pledges carbon-neutral shipping, recycled plastic for all devices
San Francisco, USReuters Alphabet Inc’s Google on Monday announced that it would neutralise carbon emissions from delivering consumer hardware by next year and include recycled plastic in each of its products by 2022. The new commitments step up the competition among tech companies aiming to show consumers and governments that they are curbing the environmental […]
Intel tops list of tech companies fighting forced labour
Thomson Reuters Foundation Intel Corp topped a list issued on Monday ranking how well technology companies combat the risk of forced labour in their supply chains, overtaking HP Inc and Apple Inc. Most of the top 40 global technology companies assessed in the study by KnowTheChain, an online resource for business, had made progress since […]
TECHNOLOGY: AS FACEBOOK REELS, SILICON VALLEY DABBLES IN ETHICS
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, looks at how the tech industry is grappling with the issue of ethics…
ESSAY: WHY WE’D BE RIGHT TO FINE BIG TECH COMPANIES
Online extremist material remains an issue of concern across the world. MAL FLETCHER, writing from the UK, explains why a proposal put forward by UK Prime Minister Theresa May to penalise big technology companies if they fail to take down extremist material online should be considered…