Author: Ryan Rivera

Ryan Rivera is a business and technology policy analyst with a long history of consulting in the computing and telecommunications industry as well as the non-profit sector. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago. He is currently enrolled in a Master of Public Health program with a concentration in epidemiology. His interests lie in the intersection of technology and ethics, and their implications for future society.
  • How to “Opt-out” from the Big Tech Social Credit System

    Update 10-15-23: The first version of this article was well-received. Thanks to everyone who took the time to send me feedback. Based on this, I updated the content and expanded the article with the latest developments and more options that people should know about. The state of tech is an ever-changing …

  • How Medicine Fails to Protect Children’s Health from Chronic Disease

    Attention parents, family members, and concerned citizens! Children’s health is getting worse. And it has been doing so for decades. While the COVID-19 pandemic brought about widespread changes to our daily lives, forcing us to reexamine our lives and values in the wake of the crisis, it also brought…

  • Misinformation and Censorship

    One cannot watch much media these days without seeing a pundit from an elite journalistic or academic institution claim that this or that is “misinformation” or “disinformation.” Claims of misinformation and disinformation have blown up over the past five years.  While such claims appear to have the noble goal of spreading only factual information, do they really do so?…

  • What’s Wrong with Health Equity?

    The call for health equity has become a rallying cry for public health – health for all and the ability for all people to reach their full health potential. In order to achieve this, public health aims to eliminate health disparities, essentially differences in health outcomes, for disadvantaged people in the population. For example, particular racial or ethnic groups may have…

  • How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Your Life

    Understanding the promise and perils of AI technology Artificial Intelligence (AI) has long captured the human imagination. We’ve all watched movies where humans interact with machine intelligence that mimics or surpasses human intelligence. In these movies, there is a split between utopian and dystopian visions of AI…

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