Richard (Thomas Middleditch) is almost losing his mind over his new project. Meanwhile, the recent episode of "Silicon Valley" season 4 brought awareness on real-life occurrences of privacy policies affecting internet users.
On the next episode of "Silicon Valley" season 4, titled "Intellectual Property," Richard will be at the brink of losing his mind over the pressure and stress of working on his next big idea.
As seen in the episode 3 promo, Richard even consults with a doctor and open ups to the physician on how he is being treated by his housemates.
"You know all the guys at the house they think I'm nuts. But I'm not nuts," Richard opens up.
While Richard struggles in keeping his mind, the others in the valley will be focusing on improving their relationships with certain people.
Erlich (T.J. Miller) will be pressuring Jian-Yang (Jimmy O. Yang) into cooperating with him on his comeback project; Monica (Amanda Crew) will be setting up a trap to put herself in better odds with Laurie (Suzanne Cryer), and Dinesh (Kumail Nanjani) will be going on a date.
Meanwhile, Big Head (Josh Brener) will be entering the academe world and Gavin (Matt Ross) will be confronting his murky future, both facing personal battles of their own.
The recent episode of "Silicon Valley," titled "Terms of Service," shed light on the issue of internet services violating privacy policies of internet users.
The episode, which was written last year, featured Dinesh who violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection ACT (COPPA) with PiperChat by not limiting their users to the age of 14 and above. It resulted to Dinesh with charges of $25 billion in damages, and opened up the reality of the information industry not always following ethical data collection.
According to reports, a service called Unroll.me — which scans email inboxes to free it from junk mail — was discovered to be gathering data from the user's inboxes and sold them to third-party companies.
Unroll.me co-founder Perri Chase tried to put blame on their users by pointing out that they have been negligent about data collection services. However, the verdict of the court of public opinion said that tech companies should not be taking advantage of their customers.
"Silicon Valley" season 4 airs every Sunday night at 10 p.m. EDT on HBO.
