Business of Tech: Big Tech’s power problem is bigger than antitrust

Professor Susan Watson. Photo / Jacques Steenkamp / Supplied

The tech giants have become the infrastructure of modern life. They mediate how we shop, communicate, advertise, store data, and increasingly use artificial intelligence. Yet the tools governments use to contain their power were designed for an earlier economic age.

Professor Susan Watson believes we may be looking for solutions in the wrong place. An internationally respected corporate law and governance scholar, Watson is Dean of the University of Auckland Business School and Acting Dean of its Faculty of Law. Her new research asks w...