# Professor Adam Alter shares insights on how the regulation of tech companies might evolve

1 Faculty News July 25, 2018 ![Business Insider logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/business%20insider%20logo.jpg?itok=0MJSCdPh)>

Excerpt from [Business Insider](https://www.businessinsider.com/why-we-should-tax-facebook-productivity-tech-addiction-2018-7) -- "There's a lot we can do as individual consumers, but also I think the major solutions should reside with the companies that push us to use email for example, and with governments which have a power to intervene to some extent. Different countries are much more tuned in to this than others."

[Watch the video](https://www.businessinsider.com/why-we-should-tax-facebook-productivity-tech-addiction-2018-7)