Letter to BS: Are technology giants determined to spy on common people?

It is time India too thought on similar lines as Europe

This refers to “Big tech is a big problem” (July 3). The US technology giants, collectively known as “Faangs” – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google — are now worth $3.25 trillion. They have positioned themselves on the plank of changing the world for the better. But their systems and tools undermine privacy.

They may not have set out to acquire political power, but they have, by coincidence, acquired the ability to shape our politics and lives. As Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence of the US, said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident,