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Can Silicon Valley employee activists bring accountability to Big Tech through tactics honed by the industrial age labor unions?
With more than 40 years experience in technology media and analysis, Jerry Bowles conceived and co-founded Social Media Today, the web’s first first curated B2B blog hub, serving as its Chief Content Officer. As an extension of SMT, he also conceived and created socially oriented web sites for a number of corporate clients, including SAP, Oracle, Siemens and Teradata. Among other credits, Jerry has contributed to Fortune, Forbes and Business Week.
Can Silicon Valley employee activists bring accountability to Big Tech through tactics honed by the industrial age labor unions?
In light of Pittsburgh’s synagogue murders and other recent hate crimes, is it time to crack down on the social media hate crazies? Can AI help and if so, should it be used for those purposes?
The battle for the conscience of Silicon Valley ignores the industry’s military-industrial past.
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IoT devices are inherently insecure yet the State of California is endeavoring to cure that particular technology problem by passing SB-327. Critics don't like it but it's a start.
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