What Big Tech Doesn’t Want You to Know – and What to Do About It

Over the past two decades, a handful of technology companies have transformed how we communicate, consume information and participate in public life. Yet while their influence has grown, efforts to hold them accountable have struggled to keep pace.

Baroness Beeban Kidron has spent more than a decade at the centre of that fight. As a filmmaker, campaigner and legislator, she has challenged some of the world's most powerful companies over issues ranging from children's rights and online safety to privacy, democracy and the concentration of corporate power.

In conversation with Misha Glenny, Kidron reflects on what she has learned from years spent confronting Silicon Valley, lobbying governments and helping shape digital regulation in Britain and beyond. Drawing on her experiences in Parliament, the United Nations and the corridors of power on both sides of the Atlantic, she explores how technology companies acquired unprecedented influence over public life, and why democratic…