Big tech needs new, powerful government watchdogs to enforce real transparency

Get the Full StoryWe can t fix rogue recommendation engines or microtargeting systems until independent watchdogs are allowed to scrutinize how they work.

Here s an unsettling exercise: Imagine if the food manufacturing industry could abandon all transparency. In this world, the Food and Drug Administration wouldn t exist to monitor and label food. Essential regulation such as the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Food Safety Modernization Act would be absent. And the work of crusaders such as Alice Lakey and Upton Sinclair would have fallen on disinterested ears.Read Full Story

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