Since its founding in 2001, the ICN has evolved from a small club of fifteen agencies and a few NGAs (mainly from North America and Europe) to a robust organization comprising over 130 NCAs and numerous NGAs from around the world (although admittedly the majority of NGAs continue to come from developed countries).
Yves here. Get a cup of coffee. This is an in-depth but accessible discussion of how the Big Tech monopolists abused their powers to secure and perfect their advantaged positions. The good news is that the government sleeping giant has awoken to the threat they pose to its authority, and it pulling out antitrust weapons with the aim of cutting the monopolists down to size.
Consider a conversation Alastair Mactaggart had among friends at a social outing. The San Francisco real estate developer asked an engineer working for Google whether we should be worried about privacy. “Wasn’t ‘privacy’ just a bunch of hype?” Mactaggart asked. The Google engineer’s reply was chilling: “If people just understood how much we knew about them, they’d be really worried.”