during the years of ten, we saw the rise and rise of social media and the ever-growing power of tech, and the perception around privacy and the way in which the technology market is upsetting. NU.nl at the hands of these four persons, which is a symbol for the developments of the last decade.
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and ceo of Facebook
The American opinietijdschrift TIME, in 2010, the 26-year-old Mark Zuckerberg (1984), out to be Person of the Year. Facebook, which he founded, the social network, which is worldwide, 550 million users. At the end of the decade, the number of users is increased by up to one-third of the world’s population: 2.8 billion people.
With the growth of, inter alia, the acquisition of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014, and the additional responsibility as a global player, it is Facebook is becoming more critical and a critical eye looked at. The English-language Wikipedia page of Criticism, or Facebook has dozens of topics, ranging from the psychological effects of fraud, privacyschandalen, and censorship.
in particular, in 2016, will Facebook be the most difficult. Russia, it appears, the social media is abused for the presidential election, to have something that can be Done right after the election as a “bizarre idea” to call it. By 2018, it’s going to travel to Washington, dc and Brussels, in order to justify it after the dataschandaal surrounding the company in Cambridge, Analytica, and that unauthorized access to data on tens of millions of Facebook users received.
at a glance to get a feel for what the sentiment is surrounding Zuckerberg and Facebook, the years, ten have been changed, you can take the TIME to cover at the beginning of the decade, in addition to the cover of the magazine Wired-march 2018 and submit it. The digitally enhanced photo, from the Middle, it seems as if Zuckerberg is just a big hit it has been. He has blood on his face and a bandage on his eyebrow. “Zuckerberg is a fierce and a hard blow, but he is convinced that he is going to win,” said the magazine.
Margrethe Vestager, the european Commissioner who is Google’s 8 billion and took the
With a strong hand, explains Margrethe Vestager (1968), the european Commissioner for Competition policy, tech, several miljardenboetes on it. In particular, we have the to pay for it. (Photo: )
With three penalties, in the address of Google’s eu Commissioner Margrethe Vestager (Competition) and the Us business over the past few years, to 8.25 billion euros of work. By 2017, it is each and every year and never touch Google, according to the European Commission, a dominant position is abused, and should billions of euros to pay for it.
you may Also have other companies had with Vestager on the deck. In this way, she is the Apple of a tax benefit of eur 13 billion to refund to the republic of Ireland, because of the illegal state aid. Both the company and Ireland to fight it. It had chipmaker Qualcomm 997 million euros to pay, because the company has to pay wanted to make sure that Apple’s chips, so the competitors would have to buy it. And Facebook had 110 million to pay, because the company had lied about the exchange of personal data in the event of the acquisition of the chatapp WhatsApp.
With this approach, the “Iron Lady of Brussels’, in 2014 and managed to raise its profile as a person you are, as techgigant’d rather not be in front of you to get. And it is not yet finished, the 51-year-old Danish said in a november interview with RTL Z, that is, they have a bone to pick with Apple. Allegedly, envisaged by the European Commission, the company will have to investigate, because of the interference with the competition, apple’s App Store and payment service, Apple Pay. Also, Google is once again under a magnifying glass, and this is the manner in which the company is the data it collects is used.
Edward Snowden, onthuller of the NSA spy
as Edward Snowden (1983), explains, in 2013, the details of the work of the American and other foreign intelligence services are not covered. The revelations led to a worldwide debate about the work of the intelligence services. (Photo: Reuters)
It was in may of 2013, Edward Snowden, from his living and working in Hawaii for hong Kong by flight. In the months prior to that, he has thousands of documents on the network, and the U.s. intelligence agency NSA to download. In a hotel room in hong Kong, he is then in touch with a documentary filmmaker and a journalist with The Guardian. They will unveil on June 6, the anniversary of the surveillanceprogramma a DECADE. Three days later, it reveals to Snowden that he is in the secret documents that are leaked.
now, Thanks to the leak of Snowden, it is clear that the NSA program PRISM to the big tech and online platforms, the data about the target can make a withdrawal. Among others, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Apple have been in the program connected to it. The revelations led to a large distrust in the American intelligence services, as well as the resources that they can use: by tech data.
Now, is Snowden more and more famous as an activist than as a whistleblower. Are the notifications still have an influence on the way the world looks at the balance between security and privacy. Snowden prides itself on being a proponent of the internet, citizens are not be monitored by the tech and the intelligence services. That he does, since his action from Russia, where he is in exile and does not have to be persecution by the US to prevent it.
Travis Kalanick when Uber-director and the symbol for a dislocation
After seven years at the helm of the taxiapp Uber to have stood still, must be the director, Travis Kalanick (1976) in 2017 and a blow-off as a result of the scandal in the months before that came out. (Photo: Reuters)
In the early months of the decade, and carries out taxi services company Uber, his first time in San Francisco, california. In the years that followed, to know the Uber, under the supervision of the director, Travis Kalanick, is to become a world player. With something as simple as an app that the taxi market has taken a total fail.
The model is imitated and the other markets are heading. Companies will present themselves as the “Uber for” their industry. Therefore, they want the investors to be able to convince you that they are just like the taxiapp – huge potential to finally tons of money.
in Order to achieve this, Uber is not afraid to take a touch off. The company has been operating in several countries, and has brought to the services on the market which are forbidden, such as UberPOP in the Netherlands. It is only when the company is due, a court will be forced to stop, it will stop the Uber with it.
in other ways, it shows the Uber aggressiveness. In the course of the years, the company is in the news because of various scandals. The company has recorded nepritjes in the competition, and found the technology to be used in order to predict whether or not the inspectors have a trip booked for the checks, and paid its drivers a little to the cost.
now, with The scandals and, as a result of the aggressive attitude of the costs Kalanick, ultimately, to the head, he gets it in 2017 on. In the meantime, Uber is almost 2.5 years later and still not a penny profit is made. Each quarter, the operating result amounted to a loss of billions of dollars.
Kalanick is trying, meanwhile, to the next market to disrupt, for he has created a company that kitchens are no restaurants in restaurants. The chefs make the food for the guests to relax in, but for the maaltijdbezorgers who eat with their bike at home and bring.
