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Yes, you can be a socially responsible, ethical tech consumer. Here's how

Products that we enjoy continue to create privacy, misinformation and workplace issues. We can do better at getting the industry to do better

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Brian X Chen | NYT
It has never felt worse to be a technology consumer. So what can you do about it?

That’s the question of the year after many of the biggest tech companies were mired in scandal after scandal or exposed as having committed necessary evils to offer the products and services that we have so blissfully enjoyed.

Those instant Amazon deliveries? They sure are convenient, but Amazon warehouse workers in Europe protested the company during Black Friday, describing their working conditions as inhuman.

You might have considered deleting Facebook after the social network confessed that Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm, had

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