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Technology giants didn't deserve public trust in the first place

  • Written by Zachary Loeb, Ph.D. Student in History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Should you have trusted this man with so much of your personal data?AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

Amazon may have been expecting lots of public attention when it announced where it would establish its new headquarters – but like many technology companies recently, it probably didn’t anticipate how negative the response would be. In...

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