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International technology policy expert, Stanford University academic, and former European parliamentarian Marietje Schaake writes in her new book that a \u201cTech Coup\u201d is happening in democratic societies and fast approaching the point of no return. Both Big Tech and smaller companies are participating in it, through the provision of spyware, microchips, facial recognition, and other technologies that erode privacy, speech, and other human rights. These technologies shift power to the tech companies at the expense of the public and democratic institutions, Schaake writes.\n\nSchaake joins Bethany and Luigi to discuss proposals for reversing this shift of power and maintaining the balance between innovation and regulation in the digital age. If a "tech coup" is really underway, how did we get here? And if so, how can we safeguard democracy and individual rights in an era of algorithmic governance and surveillance capitalism?\n\nMarietje Schaake\u2019s new book, \u201cThe Tech Coup: Saving Democracy From Silicon Valley,\u201d is available here. Read an excerpt from the book on ProMarket here.