News and Research articles on Big tech

The article shows how EU regulatory approaches to AI align with Silicon Valley technosolutionist imaginaries.

What if Facebook goes down? Ethical and legal considerations for the demise of big tech

Carl Öhman, University of Oxford
Nikita Aggarwal, University of Oxford
PUBLISHED ON: 11 Aug 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.3.1488

This paper examines the ethical and legal issues arising from the closure of a data-rich firms such as Facebook and provides four policy recommendations to mitigate the resulting harms to society.