Critical perspectives on Google & Big Tech

Permanent Record

Edward Snowden - 2019

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Jaron Lanier - 2018

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff - 2019

The Attention Merchants

Tim Wu - 2016

Zucked

Roger McNamee - 2019

Privacy Is Power

Carissa Véliz - 2021

Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

George Gilder - 2018

Google Chrome’s users take a back seat to its bottom line

Bennett Cyphers and Mitch Stoltz - EFF - 2018-11-01

Quitting Facebook & Google

J. Nathan Matias - 2018-12-08

How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer

Marko Saric - 2019-12-05

Should You Use GrapheneOS or CalyxOS?

Privacy Guides - 2022-04-21

How To Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking—and Why You Should

Thorin Klosowski - EFF - 2023-09-28

Google Breaks Promise to Block Third-Party Cookies

Lena Cohen - EFF - 2024-08-02

Practical GrapheneOS for the Paranoid

Ventral Digital - 2024-12-09

Alternatives to Google 2026: a service-by-service privacy migration guide

PrivSec Lab - 2026-06-11

Google Can Survive Too Much Innovation. You Can't.

Robert Sher - Forbes - 2012-05-15

The truth about Google's famous '20% time' policy

Jillian D'Onfro - Business Insider - 2015-04-17

The Binge Breaker

Bianca Bosker - The Atlantic - 2016-11-01

How Malware Keeps Sneaking Past Google Play’s Defenses

Lily Hay Newman - WIRED - 2017-09-22

Forget Killer Robots — Bias Is the Real AI Danger

Will Knight - MIT Technology Review - 2017-10-03

Google managers kept blacklists of conservative employees and one manager considered holding 'trials,' a new lawsuit alleges

Julie Bort - Business Insider - 2018-01-08

A longtime Google engineer quits, saying the company is ’100% competitor-focused’ and ‘can no longer innovate’

Jillian D'Onfro - CNBC - 2018-01-24

Facebook and Google are doomed, George Soros says

Hamza Shaban - Washington Post - 2018-01-26

Google Isn't Listening, So Its Employees Are Suing

Kate Conger - Gizmodo - 2018-03-26

Google sees major claims of harassment and discrimination as lawsuits proceed

Sam Levin - The Guardian - 2018-03-28

How to stop Google from tracking everything you do online

Todd Haselton - CNBC - 2018-05-11

Google will always do evil

Jessica Conditt - Engadget - 2018-05-24

Google’s new ‘AI principles’ forbid its use in weapons and human rights violations

Devin Coldewey - TechCrunch - 2018-06-07

Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal

Ryan Gallagher - The Intercept - 2018-08-01

Google’s China plan isn’t just evil — it’s bad for business

Josh Rogin - Washington Post - 2018-08-09

How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’

Daisuke Wakabayashi and Katie Benner - New York Times - 2018-10-25

A New Google+ Blunder Exposed Data From 52.5 Million Users

Lily Hay Newman - WIRED - 2018-12-10

Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech

Nitasha Tiku - WIRED - 2019-08-13

Google’s latest user-hostile design change makes ads and search results look identical

Natasha Lomas - TechCrunch - 2020-01-23

You Are Now Remotely Controlled

Shoshana Zuboff - New York Times - 2020-01-24

Google loses DOJ’s big monopoly trial over search business

Ashley Belanger - Ars Technica - 2024-08-05

Google broke law to maintain online search monopoly, US judge rules

Nick Robins-Early - The Guardian - 2024-08-05

How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To

Violet Blue - WIRED - 2025-03-21

‘Slap on the wrist’: critics decry weak penalties on Google after landmark monopoly trial

Dara Kerr, Nick Robins-Early, and Johana Bhuiyan - The Guardian - 2025-09-03

Google v. SerpApi: The Court Granted Our Motion to Dismiss

Julien Khaleghy - SerpApi - 2026-07-21