Call to rein in Big Tech gets louder

Amid concern that tech titans are controlling too much information, governments are grappling with how to implement regulatory laws

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Concerns over the privacy of his personal life prompted Mr Low to quit Facebook in 2016.

For the same reason, he backs up his data using a storage device, rather than rely on cloud services such as Google Drive.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on April 03, 2019, with the headline Call to rein in Big Tech gets louder. Subscribe