Over the past decades, under the cover of 鈥渋nnovation,鈥� technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from governments themselves. Facial recognition firms track citizens for police surveillance. Cryptocurrency has wiped out the personal savings of millions and threatens the stability of the global financial system. Spyware companies sell digital intelligence tools to anyone who can afford them. This new reality鈥攚here unregulated technology has become a forceful instrument for autocrats around the world鈥攊s terrible news for democracies and citizens.
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Marietje Schaake is international policy director at Stanford University Cyber Policy Center and international policy fellow at Stanford鈥檚 Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Between 2009 and 2019, she served as a member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands. She writes a monthly column for the Financial Times on technology and governance.