“If you stepped back to survey the scene, the entire landscape of this new Internet Freedom privacy movement looked absurd. Cold War-era organizations spun off from the CIA now funding the movement ...

The sixth and final season of HBO’s Silicon Valley debuts Sunday night, and the tension as old as the internet itself—between idealistic computer scientists and craven opportunists who can see how new ...

Surveillance Valley, by Yasha Levine (PublicAffairs). This polemical history argues that the U.S. military’s role in the development of the Internet indelibly shaped the system into a powerful tool of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. One of the great ironies of the digital era is that we ascribe credit ...

Adapted from “A People’s History of Silicon Valley: How the Tech Industry Exploits Workers, Erodes Privacy and Undermines Democracy,” by Keith A. Spencer, on ...