For decades, Mark Lemley's life as an intellectual property lawyer was orderly enough. He's a professor at Stanford University and has consulted for Amazon, Google, and Meta. "I always enjoyed that the area I practice in has largely been apolitical," Lemley tells me. What's more, his democratic values neatly aligned with those of the companies that hired him. But in January, Lemley made a radical move. "I have struggled with how to respond to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness," he posted on LinkedIn. "I have fired Meta as a client."
This could happen to anyone. It might be happening to you and your family right now. Military types following you around with no purpose other than spying on you to try to find something in your private life that might be useful to whomever pays them.
Brooks expressed alarming interest in targeting Tom Watson, commenting he must die, illustrating troubling workplace attitudes at News Group Newspapers amidst the phone-hacking scandal.
Keith O'Brien expressed his concerns regarding the influence of those involved in corporate espionage, emphasizing the significant power and wealth they wield, which leaves him feeling vulnerable.