New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2024. Marietje Schaake offers a behind-the-scenes account of how technology companies crept into nearly every corner of our lives and our governments. She takes us beyond the headlines to high-stakes meetings with human rights defenders, business leaders, computer scientists, and politicians to show how technologies - from social media to artificial intelligence - have gone from being heralded as utopian to undermining the pillars of our democracies.