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EU Set to Ban Surveillance, Start Fines Under New AI Rules - 15 avril 2021
The European Union is poised to ban artificial intelligence systems used for mass surveillance or for ranking social behavior, while companies developing AI could face fines as high as 4% of global revenue if they fail to comply with new rules governing the software applications.
The rules are part of legislation (...)
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Tesla (TSLA), Cloudfare (NET) Breached in Verkada Security Camera Hack - 13 mars 2021
A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools.
Companies whose footage was exposed include carmaker (...)
FANG and Faust : Reimagining Capitalism For a Stake in Our Data Profits - 4 janvier 2021
There’s a Faustian bargain to make from Covid-19 that could increase our ownership of the 21st century.
From interest rates to fashion, pandemics in the past — like the Black Death in the 14th century — have left deep imprints on economic life. This time may be no different. In the aftermath of the coronavirus, (...)
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Facebook Joined by Human Rights Groups to Fight Spyware Maker - 2 janvier 2021
A coalition of human rights and press freedom groups have filed a brief supporting Facebook Inc.’s lawsuit against the Israeli surveillance technology company NSO Group, arguing that the “very core of the principles that America represents” are at stake in the case.
Facebook last year initiated the lawsuit against (...)
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Amazon Has Turned a Middle-Class Warehouse Career Into a McJob - 18 décembre 2020
Despite a starting wage well above the federal minimum, the company is dragging down pay in the logistics industry and bracing for a fight with unions.
Amazon.com Inc. job ads are everywhere. Plastered on city buses, displayed on career web sites, slotted between songs on classic rock stations. They promise a (...)
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Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work - 1er septembre 2020
Someone seems to have rigged Amazon system to get orders first
Operation reflects ferocious rivalry for gigs in a bad economy
A strange phenomenon has emerged near Amazon.com Inc. delivery stations and Whole Foods stores in the Chicago suburbs : smartphones dangling from trees. Contract delivery drivers are (...)
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TikTok Faces French Data Probe, Adding to EU-Wide Scrutiny - 15 août 2020
France’s privacy watchdog opened a probe into TikTok, marking another examination of ByteDance Ltd.’s social media app, which is facing broader scrutiny of its privacy policies.
The French authority, CNIL, is looking at a number of issues, including how the company communicates with users and the protection of (...)
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The World Has a New Centibillionaire : Mark Zuckerberg - 8 août 2020
Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth passed $100 billion for the first time Thursday after Facebook Inc. hit a record high on optimism about the release of its TikTok competitor Reels.
The 36-year-old joins fellow tech titans Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates as the only people in the world who currently have centibillionaire (...)
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Lisbon Airbnb : Portugal Pushes Affordable Housing Plan - 30 juillet 2020
Lisbon City Council is introducing measures to turn Airbnb-style homes into affordable housing. But with many short-term rental owners holding out for tourism to return, the city’s new program has yet to attract many owners.
Under the so-called “Safe Rent” program, Lisbon is offering to pay as much as three years of (...)
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Ubisoft Sexual Misconduct Scandal : Harassment, Sexism and Abuse - 23 juillet 2020
A scandal at the family-run video game company has disrupted the Guillemots’ inner circle and incited calls for more drastic changes.
Five brothers started Ubisoft Entertainment SA in 1986 and since then the video game company has survived seven generations of game consoles, four recessions, a hostile takeover bid (...)
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How Facebook’s Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda - 19 juillet 2020
Some of unit’s clients stifle opposition, stoke extremism.
Under fire for Facebook Inc.’s role as a platform for political propaganda, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has punched back, saying his mission is above partisanship. “We hope to give all people a voice and create a platform for all ideas,” Zuckerberg wrote in (...)
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Why Coronavirus Contact-Tracing Apps Aren’t Ending the Pandemic - 4 juillet 2020
High hopes that technology would help supplement the traditional, labor-intensive approach to contact tracing have been dashed.
As Covid-19 spread, sending almost every country into some form of lockdown, governments began to wonder how best to keep track of the deadly virus. Contact-tracing apps seemed a (...)
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MeToo in Gaming : Two Ubisoft Executives Placed on Leave - 2 juillet 2020
The two men are among several employees under scrutiny by the video game publisher.
Ubisoft Entertainment SA, one of the world’s largest video-game publishers, placed two executives and several other employees on administrative leave as part of a corporate investigation into misconduct allegations made public over (...)
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Amazon’s ’Hardball’ Non-Compete Clauses Are Coming Under Fire - 23 juin 2020
A lawsuit against a cloud services employee who left to join Google highlights Amazon’s aggressive tactics to retain talent.
A lawsuit against a cloud services employee who left to join Google highlights Amazon’s aggressive tactics to retain talent.
When Brian Hall accepted a job at Google early this year, he says (...)
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Apple Under Fire from EU, Developers For Stringent App Rules - 23 juin 2020
Apple’s Dominance Is Finally Under Threat
Regulator eyes limits on developers offering other ways to pay
Some apps charge consumers more to absorb App Store fees
One week before Apple Inc.’s annual developer conference, the financial heart of its App Store is under renewed attack from antitrust regulators (...)
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Amazon HR Sent Termination Notices to Worker On Covid Leave - 20 juin 2020
Tony Banks told Amazon.com Inc. right away when he tested positive for Covid-19. More than a month later, he’s on the mend, but struggling with fatigue and shortness of breath that makes most physical activity feel like he’s just sprinted up a hill. Banks says he’s in no shape to return to work at the Indiana (...)
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Black Lives Matter Highlights Adversity Facing Black Tech CEOs - 17 juin 2020
Will Hayes has grown accustomed to an awkward start to business meetings. On numerous occasions, venture capitalists would confuse Hayes, the head of software company Lucidworks Inc., with another man on his executive team. The investor would introduce himself, extend a handshake to the other guy and say, “Good to (...)
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China Is Making Cryptocurrency to Challenge Bitcoin and Dollar - 4 juin 2020
Authorities are testing a new kind of money in four cities.
People in China are no strangers to digital payments—if anything, it’s easier to move around and shop in Shanghai or Beijing with an Alipay or WeChat Pay smartphone app than it is bearing a pocketbook filled with yuan notes. Now the Chinese government has (...)
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Bezos Gains $24 Billion in 2020 While World Battles Pandemic - Bloomberg - 16 avril 2020
The world’s richest person is getting richer, even in a pandemic, and perhaps because of it.
With consumers stuck at home, they’re relying on Jeff Bezos’s Amazon.com Inc. more than ever. The retailer’s stock climbed 5.3% to a record Tuesday, lifting the founder’s net worth to $138.5 (...)
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Palantir in Talks With Germany, France for Virus-Fighting Tool - 1er avril 2020
Data-mining firm has an agreement to provide analytics to U.K.
Firm is also in talks with Austria, Switzerland for software
Data-analytics company Palantir Technologies Inc. is in talks to provide software to governments across Europe to battle the spread of Covid-19 and make strained health-care systems more (...)
