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Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - Bloomberg - 29 mars 2020
Phones are ringing off the hook at companies providing a bit of Big Brother.
The email came from the boss.
We’re watching you, it told Axos Financial Inc. employees working from home. We’re capturing your keystrokes. We’re logging the websites you visit. Every 10 minutes or so, we’re taking a screen (...)
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Amazon Drivers Received Single Wipe to Clean Vans Before Shifts - Bloomberg - 19 mars 2020
In interviews, some contract drivers worry their safety is taking a back seat to the swift delivery of products.
When about two dozen Amazon.com Inc. delivery drivers reported for their shifts Tuesday morning on California’s central coast, their manager passed around a sleeve of disinfecting wipes. He said they (...)
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Israel Spyware Firm NSO Wants to Track and Stop Coronavirus - Bloomberg - 18 mars 2020
An Israeli technology company, which has gained notoriety for the spyware it sells, has developed a new product it says has the ability to track the spread of the coronavirus.
NSO Group Ltd.’s product analyzes huge volumes of data to map people’s movements to identify who they’ve come in contact with, which can then (...)
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Google Wary of Sharing User Location Data in Pandemic Fight - Bloomberg - 18 mars 2020
Google is limiting how its trove of location data is used in the fight against the novel coronavirus as the company balances government demands with user privacy concerns.
The largest U.S. internet company has been talking with other tech companies and governments about how to respond to the pandemic. Google has (...)
Twitter : CEO Jack Dorsey At Risk From Activist Investor - Bloomberg - 9 mars 2020
Activist investor Elliott Management Corp. has taken a sizable stake in Twitter Inc. and plans to push for changes at the social media company, including replacing Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey, according to people familiar with the matter.
The New York-based firm has nominated four directors to Twitter’s (...)
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Personality Tests Are Failing American Workers - Bloomberg - 4 mars 2020
All too often, they filter people out for the wrong reasons.
If you applied for a job recently, there’s a good chance that you were subjected to a personality test. In some areas, the tests have become ubiquitous as U.S. employers seek ways to make the hiring process more efficient.
That’s unfortunate, because the (...)
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The Rise and Fall of Home DNA Testing - Bloomberg - 28 février 2020
Privacy fears hinder a once-hot business, dialing up pressure to deliver on its health-care promises
Consumer DNA-testing firms are closing up shop and cutting jobs, as a lull in sales forces the industry to move beyond the genealogy tests that turned a handful of well-funded companies into household names.
At (...)
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Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal - Bloomberg - 4 février 2020
To doctors opening patients’ electronic records across the U.S., the alert would have looked innocuous enough.
A pop-up would appear, asking about a patient’s level of pain. Then, a drop-down menu would list treatments ranging from a referral to a pain specialist to a prescription for an opioid painkiller.
Its (...)
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Police Use Face-Recognition Software as India Protests Intensify - 25 janvier 2020
Software used at Modi’s rally to identify habitual protesters
Police originally acquired the tool to find missing children
Indian police have started using facial-recognition software to screen large crowds as protests over a new religion-based citizenship law intensify, the Indian Express newspaper reported, (...)
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French Liberte Tested by Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Plan - Bloomberg - 23 janvier 2020
France Set to Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program
Digital identity enrollment app to be rolled out in November
Privacy, absence of consent and security among concerns raised
France is poised to become the first European country to use facial recognition technology to give citizens a secure digital (...)
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China Starts New Identity Check Measures for SIM Card Buyers - 1er décembre 2019
Guidelines that require Chinese telecom carriers to use facial recognition technology on buyers of SIM cards kicked in on Sunday as the country cracks down on fraud.
Companies should use artificial intelligence or other measures on buyers to ensure they match the identification provided to purchase the SIM cards, (...)
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Google Accused of Creating Spy Tool to Squelch Worker Dissent - 27 novembre 2019
Company says it’s an effort to curb calendar, meeting spam
Allegation underscores tensions between employees, leadership
Google employees are accusing the company’s leadership of developing an internal surveillance tool that they believe will be used to monitor workers’ attempts to organize protests and discuss (...)
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A Billion People’s Data Left Unprotected on Google Cloud Server - 25 novembre 2019
A database aggregating 1.2 billion users’ personal information, including social media accounts, email addresses and phone numbers, was discovered unprotected on a server last month. So far, it’s not clear how it got there.
Most of the data was collected by a company called People Data Labs, said Vinny Troia, chief (...)
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Viral Tweet About Apple Card Leads to Goldman Sachs Probe - 16 novembre 2019
A Wall Street regulator is opening a probe into Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s credit card practices after a viral tweet from a tech entrepreneur alleged gender discrimination in the new Apple Card’s algorithms when determining credit limits.
A series of posts from David Heinemeier Hansson starting Thursday railed (...)
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Vladimir Putin Wants Everyone to Love the Way He Watches Them - 16 novembre 2019
The fourth of 10 basic rules Western spies followed when trying to infiltrate Russia’s capital during the Cold War—don’t look back because you’re never alone—is more apt than ever. Only these days it’s not just foreigners who are being tracked, but all 12.6 million Muscovites, too.
Officials in Moscow have spent the (...)
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Twitter Analysts Don’t See Quick Rebound as Stock Dives 20% - 25 octobre 2019
Twitter Inc. shares plummeted on Thursday, after the social-media company reported third-quarter results that came in well below expectations and gave an outlook that was seen as weak.
The stock shed as much as 20%, erasing more than $4.5 billion from the company’s valuation. Thursday was the biggest one-day (...)
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France Set to Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program - 4 octobre 2019
France is poised to become the first European country to use facial recognition technology to give citizens a secure digital identity — whether they want it or not.
Saying it wants to make the state more efficient, President Emmanuel Macron’s government is pushing through plans to roll out an ID program, dubbed (...)
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Amazon Doesn’t Consider the Race of Its Customers. Should It ? - 30 septembre 2019
For residents of minority urban neighborhoods, access to Amazon.com’s vast array of products"”from Dawn dish soap and Huggies diapers to Samsung flatscreen TVs"”can be a godsend. Unlike whiter ZIP codes, these parts of town often lack well-stocked stores and quality supermarkets. White areas get organic grocers and (...)
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Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K. - 29 septembre 2019
Social media platforms based in the U.S. including Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty between the two countries, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The accord, which is set to be signed by next month, will compel social media (...)
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Facebook (FB) Paid Contractors to Transcribe User Audio Files - Bloomberg - 13 août 2019
Social network says it paused human review of conversations
Apple, Amazon, Google have been scrutinized for similar work
Facebook Inc. has been paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from users of its services, according to people with knowledge of the work.
The work has rattled the (...)
