"Now, the bespectacled 42-year-old, who worked with Clinton when she was secretary of State and during her failed 2016 presidential bid, is reentering the fight with a new lobbying shop called Reset. It aims take on the power of Silicon Valley companies just as officials from Brussels to Ottawa look to rewrite the rules for the digital world.
With up to $10 million in annual funding from philanthropic organization Luminate and the Sandler Foundation — a U.S.-based donor that also supports the likes of the American Civil Liberties Union and media outlet ProPublica — Reset hopes to level the playing field between Big Tech and lawmakers. It will help officials gain access to data, and insider knowledge, that so far have been largely shielded from public view.
"The concentration of power that a few companies now have on a global level is unprecedented in human history," said Scott, the former director of policy and advocacy at Luminate, a funder of nonprofit organizations that's backed by Pierre Omidyar, a co-founder of eBay. "People are pissed off.""
- Date Published:03/11/2020
- Original Publication:Politico