Die EU legt sich mit dem kalifornischen Suchmaschinenanbieter Google an. Es geht um Meinungsmache, Monopole und Milliarden. Und um die Frage: Was ist das eigentlich für eine Firma, die da unsere Sicht auf die Welt prägt (und möglicherweise verändert)
Zwei Grafiken zeigen die wachsende Macht von Daten und Internetkonzernen. Oft wird das Gefühl vermittelt, den Entwicklungen von Big Data könnte man nichts entgegensetzen. Das stimmt freilich nicht.
"The White House intellectual property adviser Colleen V. Chien noted in 2012 that Google and Apple were spending more money acquiring patents (not to mention litigating them) than on doing research and development."
Brad Burnham Jun 10, 2010 "Once you start thinking about large web platforms as governments, the logical question is what kind of government are they. One thing is for sure - none of these platforms are democracies. They are oligarchies controlled by founders, investors or shareholders. That may not be at all bad. As long as citizens (users) can move freely from one government to another with little switching cost, there is no reason to burden these polities with the inherent inefficiencies of popular democracy. But that does put a special premium on emigration policies and property rights. Do I own my data, can I export it freely? It also suggests that large networks that have strong network effects may someday need other incentives to act in the best interests of their citizens."
"In the end, the big networks on the web will all have to find a balance between state power and private initiative."
Amazon, Google, Facebook - sie alle sammeln Daten und verdienen damit Milliarden. Die US-Seite fordert daher bei den Verhandlungen, dass zu strenger Datenschutz verboten wird.
From TVs that listen in on us to a doll that records your child’s questions, data collection has become both dangerously intrusive and highly profitable. Is it time for governments to act to curb online surveillance?
Seit Tagen geistert durch den rauschenden Blätterwald die Behauptung, das EU-Parlament wolle noch in dieser Woche eine Abstimmung über die Zerschlagung Googles einleiten. Allein: Das ist nicht wahr.
All over the world – from the Americas to Europe to the Middle East to Africa and Asia – companies in the Information & Communications Technology (ICT) sector face increasing government pressure to comply with domestic laws and policies in ways that may conflict with the internationally recognized human rights of freedom of expression and privacy.
Christian Sandvig, blog "multicast the Internets, technology, and policy" June 26th, 2014 " You likely didn’t know that your “like” clicks are merrily producing ads on your friends pages and in your name because you cannot see them. These “stories” do not appear on your news feed and cannot be individually deleted" ..." Facebook’s business model is to produce attention for advertisers, not to help you — silly rabbit." Det generella problemet är att det finns många sätt på vilka algoritmer fungerar som blandningsventiler mellan saker som lätt kan värderas med pengar (som annonser) och saker som inte kan. Och denna typ av blandning är ett normativt problem (vad ska vi göra) och inte ett tekniskt problem (hur gör vi det).
By Iain Thomson, The Register, 26 Sep 2014 : The Russian authorities have told Google, Facebook, and Twitter that they face prosecution if they do not comply with the country's crackdown on free speech."If they do not comply with the requirements of Russian legislation, they would face administrative sanctions," Maxim Ksenzov, deputy head of the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Roscomnadzor) told newspaper Izvestia.
Online giants Yelp, Facebook, Google and Microsoft all have representatives on ALEC’s technology task force, the Daily Beast reported Friday. Via the Beast:
Der Zürcher Vernetzungsprofessor Felix Stalder hat auf der Konferenz »Netz für alle« vor der »Einhegung« und »Vorformatierung« der Internet-Kommunikation durch Konzerne wie Apple, Facebook oder Google gewarnt.
Vor 20 Jahren begann die Erfolgsgeschichte des World Wide Web - aber ist das Netz wirklich offen und frei? Ein Vergleich zeigt: Fünf Online-Giganten teilen das Web heute mit denselben Methoden unter sich auf, wie es Großkonzerne in den 1920er Jahren mit Radio und Telefon taten.
J. Frey, M. Ebner, M. Schön, and B. Taraghi. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on WebInformation Systems and Technologies (WEBIST) 2013, Aachen, (Mai 2013)