Plantier Getting Access to COVID Tracking Data

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I feel like some of these conversations are a bit more difficult to understand from an American perspective right where the health care system is private. This is what they're used to. What I describe it as is kind of like a sly privatization, right? You don't see it when you go and approach the health service when you go for surgery or whatever. But this is happening in the background. And it's still having impacts on the type of service that you can expect on what the health service can deliver to you. It potentially has implications down the line.

Paris Marx is joined by Rosie Collington to discuss the consequences of outsourcing tech to the private sector, how it causes governments to lose important capacities to serve the public, and how the push for open government data empowered large tech firms.

Rosie Collington is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London. She’s also the co-author of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies with Mariana Mazzucato. You can follow Rosie on Twitter at @RosieCollingto.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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