PC Magazine - USA (2020-05)

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he technology industry as we know it today

would have been hard to imagine say, forty

years ago, before personal computers

became household items; when nobody had a

Facebook page, and the World Wide Web was still

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primarily, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and

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decades has changed the world irrevocably, in

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And it’s been allowed to do so pretty much

unhindered by regulation, mostly because one key

way these companies make money is a whole new

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of people’s personal data for advertising (and

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seem to have trouble grasping even basic tech

principles; certainly not well enough to create

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our society, economy, and politics, and on

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Also in the May issue, our hardware team got their

hands on two brand-new laptops that feature

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Taking on

Big Tech

CAROL MANGIS

FIRST WORD