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Don't Be Evil

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A fascinating, comprehensive look at the tech companies. So interesting!

Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

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The author's painstaking research and attention to detail is obvious in the writing of this book. There were many facts that I only discovered after reading this!

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Read if you: Want a better understanding of the hold the major tech companies have on our society and individual lives .

You many use Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple on a daily basis (and perhaps multiple times a day), but your concern over their practices and access to your information makes you wary. Through Rana Roroohar's extensive experience reporting on Silicon Valley, she has created a highly readable, alarming, evenhanded, and clear-eyed view on the growing expansion and dominance of Big Tech. This is a much-needed account of an industry that most everyday people don't fully understand--thanks to her reporting, readers will be armed with a better knowledge of what's at stake and how government and the industry can turn things around before it's too late.

Many thanks to Crown Publishing and Netgalley for a digital review in exchange for an honest review.

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An absolutely fantastic book and recommended reading for anyone wrestling with the direction Big Tech is going and has been over the last two decades. Foroohar appeals to her experience covering Silicon Valley and the technology industry and includes interviews with some of the those who are starting to pushing back. Don't Be Evil belongs in the same category as The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and The Attention Merchants and is a good starting point for understanding just what is wrong with Google, Facebook and others.

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