Every day data is collected about how you live. This data is owned by large technology
companies in the US and China. Google Facebook Amazon and TikTok have become such a big part
of society that important decisions are being moved from democratic assemblies to closed
boardrooms. On the one hand technology makes our lives more exciting and richer. At the same
time it can create economic disparities the world has never seen before. Technology companies
are developing increasingly advanced forms of artifi cial intelligence that can solve key tasks
but also threaten our freedom more fundamentally than ever before in history. Hilde Nagell
shows how it is possible to return control to the people and to democracy. She has spoken with
politicians philosophers trade unionists and technologists and ultimately proposes a Nordic
model for digitalisation and data sharing. It is fundamental that data should be viewed as a
collective good.
