• Former Facebook and Google employees fight tech 'addiction'
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42959848[/url]
The [URL="https://nytimes.com/2018/02/04/technology/early-facebook-google-employees-fight-tech.html"]New York Times article[/URL] hints at them not being too keen on either data farming users and serving them specific content: [QUOTE]“We were on the inside,” said Tristan Harris, a former in-house ethicist at Google who is heading the new group. “We know what the companies measure. We know how they talk, and we know how the engineering works.” ... “The largest supercomputers in the world are inside of two companies — Google and Facebook — and where are we pointing them?” Mr. Harris said. “We’re pointing them at people’s brains, at children.”[/QUOTE]
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