Data spies: The dark and shady practices of Silicon Valley | Roger McNamee

This is how data harvesting really works. You’re not going to like it. - In this absorbing talk spanning the last 20 years of tech, Roger McNamee starts at the origins of the PayPal Mafia (which included entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Reid Hoffman) and traces them to Silicon Valley’s global domination. - Data is used by online vendors in all industries to make behavioral predictions for profit – often in unethical or cloaked ways. - Did we sign up for this? Roger McNamee calls for a halt