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Google’s "˜Dutch Sandwich’ Shielded 16 Billion Euros From Tax - 3 janvier 2018
Alphabet Inc.’s Google moved 15.9 billion euros ($19.2 billion) to a Bermuda shell company in 2016, regulatory filings in the Netherlands show — saving the company billions of dollars in taxes that year.
Google uses two structures, known as a "Double Irish" and a "Dutch Sandwich," to shield the majority of its (...)
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Jeff Bezos’s Net Worth Just Broke $100 Billion - 27 novembre 2017
The Amazon.com Inc. founder’s fortune is up $2.4 billion to $100.3 billion, as the online retailer’s shares jumped more than 2 percent on optimism for Black Friday sales. Online purchases for the day are up 18.4 percent over last year, according to data from Adobe Analytics, and investors are betting the company (...)
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Amazon’s Cashierless Store Is Almost Ready for Prime Time - 16 novembre 2017
The Amazon Go team is said to have worked out many of the technical bugs and is starting to hire store-related personnel.
For the past year, Amazon employees have been test driving Amazon Go, an experimental convenience store in downtown Seattle. The idea is to let consumers walk in, pick up items and then pay (...)
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Moscow Deploys Facial Recognition to Spy on Citizens in Streets - 28 septembre 2017
Moscow is adding facial-recognition technology to its network of 170,000 surveillance cameras across the city in a move to identify criminals and boost security.
Since 2012, CCTV recordings have been held for five days after they’re captured, with about 20 million hours of video stored at any one time.
"We soon (...)
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Tech Companies Are Pushing Back Against Biometric Privacy Laws - 20 juillet 2017
They want your body.
Privacy advocates cheered when Illinois passed its Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in 2008 regulating commercial use of finger, iris, and facial scans. With companies such as Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. developing facial tagging technology, it was clear that laws would be needed to (...)
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Google to Remove Private Medical Records From Search Results - 26 juin 2017
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has quietly started removing a new category of online content — personal medical records — from its search results, a departure from its typically hands-off approach to policing the web.
Google lists the information it removes from its search results on its policy page. On Thursday, the (...)
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Paris Airport Tests Facial Recognition at Security - 14 février 2017
Groupe ADP, the operator of Paris’s airports, has begun testing new face-recognition software at Charles de Gaulle airport to speed passengers through immigration faster after terrorist attacks on the capital doubled delays amid tighter security.
The new software is from Vision-Box, a closely held company in (...)
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Eye Scans Are Replacing Airline Boarding Passes - 27 janvier 2017
Security tech firm Clear makes a big leap toward a national network"”but there are still obstacles to overcome.
Clear, the biometric screening firm long hobbled by a limited network, is landing in several major U.S. airports soon"”including New York’s LaGuardia"”marking the start of an era that could radically (...)
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This Team Runs Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Page - 18 janvier 2017
“His image in the digital domain needs to be controlled.”
When Facebook went public five years ago, the world had a pretty vivid picture of who Mark Zuckerberg was. As much as anything, that image was of Jesse Eisenberg’s fictionalized performance as Zuckerberg in The Social Network : an intense, socially inept kid (...)
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Wall Street’s Next Frontier Is Hacking Into Emotions of Traders - 23 octobre 2016
Startups wielding sensors and algorithms promise a new era of surveillance.
The trader was in deep trouble. A millennial who had only recently been allowed to set foot on a Wall Street floor, he made bad bets, and in a panic to recoup his losses, he’d blown through risk limits, losing $4.9 million in a single (...)
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Uber Loses at Least $1.2 Billion in First Half of 2016 - 27 août 2016
After touting profitability in the U.S. early this year, the ride-hailing company is said to post second-quarter losses exceeding $100 million.
The ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc. is not a public company, but every three months, dozens of shareholders get on a conference call to hear the latest details (...)
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Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move From Above - 24 août 2016
Since January, police have been testing an aerial surveillance system adapted from the surge in Iraq. And they neglected to tell the public.
The sky over the Circuit Court for Baltimore City on June 23 was the color of a dull nickel, and a broad deck of lowering clouds threatened rain. A couple dozen people with (...)
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Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move From Above - 23 août 2016
Since January, police have been testing an aerial surveillance system adapted from the surge in Iraq. And they neglected to tell the public.
The sky over the Circuit Court for Baltimore City on June 23 was the color of a dull nickel, and a broad deck of lowering clouds threatened rain. A couple dozen people with (...)
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Inside One of the World’s Most Secretive iPhone Factories - 26 avril 2016
A few minutes past 9 a.m. at Pegatron Corp.’s vast factory on Shanghai’s outskirts, thousands of workers dressed in pink jackets are getting ready to make iPhones.
The men and women stare into face scanners and swipe badges at security turnstiles to clock in. The strict ID checks are there to make sure they don’t (...)
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Got a Hot Seller on Amazon ? Prepare for E-Tailer to Make One Too - 20 avril 2016
Amazon is building house-brand colossus by tracking what sells
We don’t feel good about it, but there’s nothing we can do’
Rain Design has been selling an aluminum laptop stand on Amazon.com Inc. for more than a decade. A best-seller in its category, the $43 product has a 5-star rating and 2,460 customer reviews. (...)
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What Happens When the Surveillance State Becomes an Affordable Gadget ? - 12 mars 2016
Maybe it doesn’t faze you that your local police have a $400,000 device that listens in on cell phones. How will you feel when your neighbor has a $1,500 version ?
When Daniel Rigmaiden was a little boy, his grandfather, a veteran of World War II and Korea, used to drive him along the roads of Monterey, (...)
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Google’s Book-Scanning Project Ruled to Be Legal `Fair Use’ - 17 octobre 2015
Google’s book-scanning project is back on track.
The world’s biggest search provider can keep adding to its digital library of millions of books without paying their authors, a U.S. appeals court said, ruling that the effort is "fair use" of published material under copyright law.
Google, which has scanned more (...)
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JPMorgan Algorithm Knows You’re a Rogue Employee Before You Do - 8 avril 2015
Wall Street traders are already threatened by computers that can do their jobs faster and cheaper. Now the humans of finance have something else to worry about : Algorithms that make sure they behave.
JPMorgan Chase & Co., which has racked up more than $36 billion in legal bills since the financial crisis, is (...)
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Wear This Device So the Boss Knows You’re Losing Weight - 22 août 2014
To fight rising medical costs, oil company BP Plc (BP) last year offered Cory Slagle — a 260-pound former football lineman — an unusual way to trim $1,200 from his annual insurance bill.
One option was to wear a fitness-tracking bracelet from Fitbit Inc. to earn points toward cheaper health insurance. With the (...)
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Google Faces German Order to Change Handling of Personal Data - 13 mai 2014
This time, the operator of the biggest Internet search engine is violating German rules by compiling customers’ data without asking for their consent, according to Johannes Caspar, who heads the data protection office for the German state of Hamburg. The agency plans to order Google to change its data-handling (...)
