How can the power of the Internet companies be reined in?

Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 12:40 p.m.

The Internet has just turned 50 and already the worlds biggest technology companies are also the world's biggest companies full stop. Not only have we failed to regulate their growing monopolisation but also the way they, and the world's intelligence services, track our movements and harvest our data. Author James Ball looks at who owns the internet and how it owns us.