Mental Health Action

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How Big Tech captured our public health system

How have large tech corporations such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon acquired new powers in public health in their response to COVID-19? What issues of corporate power and accountability do these new powers raise? And why do these new developments not fit earlier paradigms of privatisation and algorithmic power?” 

These are some of the questions Arun Kundnani posed to Seda Gürses for an interview series on the securitisation of health. Arun researches questions of surveillance and social justice and conducts the interview series for the Transnational Institute (TNI), an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable planet. The conversation captures some of the work done within the Programmable Infrastructures Project and aims to make the content accessible to people outside the technology domain in order to open a broader conversation around digital technologies and public health. Watch it here. 

See original article here: https://www.tudelft.nl/2022/tbm/how-big-tech-captured-our-public-health-system

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  1. […] use of tech continues to make inroads, what will our future mental healthcare be? Other sectors have already been ‘disrupted’ by Big Tech – data, algorithms and […]

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