Author: Claudia Maggi Editor: Ruth Lucas By collecting and storing data of users' search actions, big tech firms fabricate behavioural predictions that they then sell to their real customers: advertisers . This logic of accumulation was termed ‘Surveillance Capitalism’ by Shoshana Zuboff in her renowned book - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power . Given the sophistication and scale of tech companies’ surveillance prac

Author: Manya Gupta Editors: Siddharth G. Khare and Soline Germond The prevalence of the US dollar in international trade and finance is a well-known fact. The dollar runs the global economy, long enjoying the status of the world’s preeminent reserve currency since the end of World War II. With almost all currencies defined in relation to the dollar, the US occupies a dominant position from both economic and geopolitical standpoints, with decisions taken within the country sh