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Employees As Regulators: The New Private Ordering In High Technology Companies, Jennifer S. Fan
Employees As Regulators: The New Private Ordering In High Technology Companies, Jennifer S. Fan
Utah Law Review
There is mounting public concern over the influence that high technology companies have in our society. In the past, these companies were lauded for their innovations, but now as one scandal after another has plagued them, from being a conduit in influencing elections (think Cambridge Analytica) to the development of weaponized artificial intelligence, to their own moment of reckoning with the #MeToo movement, these same companies are under scrutiny. Leaders in high technology companies created their own sets of norms through private ordering. Their work was largely unfettered by regulators, with the exception of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s oversight …