Tonight Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, will launch a blistering attack against politicians, tech giants and policymakers – accusing them of being asleep at the wheel while technology firms skirt regulations. All this from a politician who campaigned two years ago on a promise to be the most “business-friendly” Mayor of London ever. Whether it’s Uber’s sexism, Facebook’s fake news or Apple’s addictive apps ensnaring our children, there’s a populist tech backlash in full swing and today politicians are taking full advantage of it. Khan’s speech today, which comes as part of his keynote at SXSW in Austin, Texas, seems to join the growing negative sentiment around tech. “We welcome a pragmatic conversation about the future of tech,” Dom Hallas, Executive Director of startup policy group Coadec told Forbes.

Source: Forbes March 12, 2018 14:48 UTC