Michael Kwet received his PhD in sociology from Rhodes University, and he is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg and is a visiting fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He is the author of ‘Digital Colonialism: US Empire and the new imperialism in the Global South’ (Race & Class, 2019), ‘The Digital Tech Deal: a socialist framework for the twenty-first century’ (Race & Class, 2022), and is editor of the forthcoming book, ‘The Cambridge Handbook of Race & Surveillance’. Michael hosts the Tech Empire podcast and is the founder of the forthcoming People’s Tech website.