The Power of a Monopoly in the 20th Century

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There's close to ten thousand companies profiting off of this in the us. And that members like ex fidancially growing every year. Do you want to be the one to shut down a small business that's contributing to the economy? I don't know. You'll see them with companies like face buck, and they will often use small business as this kind of a human shield. Like it's not really something that us as individuals can stop. It is something that the state needs to step in and take action against. But they have been unwilling to do that,. especially the approach to technology has largely been one of d regulate. Let em do what they want. This is the future

Paris Marx is joined by Shoshana Wodinsky to discuss how the digital infrastructure that companies have built out over the past couple decades to track everything we do in order to serve us ads places us at risk, and how that’s come into focus since the overturning of abortion rights in Roe v Wade in the United States.

Shoshana Wodinsky is a privacy reporter at Gizmodo. Follow Shoshana on Twitter at @swodinsky.

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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Shoshana wrote about getting an abortion in the age of surveillance and why every company is becoming an ad network. With her colleagues at Gizmodo, she also wrote about how Facebook perpetuated climate denial and killed news feed changes that would anger conservatives.
Anti-abortion groups targeted ads at people who had visited abortion clinics.
Data brokers have been selling data on people who visit abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood.

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