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Amazon Mentor app tracks and disciplines delivery drivers - 26 février 2021
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Amazon confirmed last week it has started putting AI-equipped cameras in some delivery vans.
It already requires contracted delivery workers to use an app, called Mentor, that tracks and scores their driving behavior.
Like the cameras, the app is designed to improve driver safety, but Amazon (...)
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Amazon using AI-equipped cameras in delivery vans - 10 février 2021
Amazon has begun rolling out AI-enabled cameras from Netradyne in vehicles at a handful of contracted delivery partners across the U.S., CNBC has learned.
The cameras record drivers “100% of the time” while they’re on their route and flag a series of safety infractions, including failure to stop at a stop sign, (...)
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GM’s Cruise to begin testing unmanned self-driving vehicles this year - 27 octobre 2020
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Cruise, a majority-owned subsidiary of GM, plans to begin testing unmanned autonomous vehicles by the end of this year in San Francisco.
The company received a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to remove the human backup drivers from its self-driving cars.
Other companies to (...)
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How Amazon prevents unions by surveilling employee activism - 24 octobre 2020
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Amazon has managed to keep unions out of its ranks since the company’s founding in 1994.
A recent string of events appears to show the extent of Amazon’s efforts to avoid unions and track workplace unrest.
One Amazon warehouse employee is trying to organize his coworkers via an online platform out of (...)
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Alphabet Verily enters stop-loss insurance market - 29 août 2020
Alphabet’s Verily is starting a new subsidiary dedicated to stop-loss insurance.
It is taking a minority investment from Swiss Re, a global insurance giant.
Verily, which is dedicated to health and technology, has been thinking about the insurance market for years.
Verily, the health unit of Google parent (...)
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Facial recognition developed by Clearview AI likely illegal in Europe - 20 juin 2020
The European Data Protection Board warned on Wednesday that Clearview AI’s technology is likely to be illegal in Europe.
The warning comes after Amazon and IBM scaled back their facial recognition products.
Facial recognition technology developed by U.S. firm Clearview AI could be illegal in Europe, according to (...)
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Britain gave Palantir access to sensitive medical data - 11 juin 2020
The U.K. Government gave Peter Thiel’s Palantir access to sensitive NHS patient data.
A contract published online on Friday shows that Palantir is charging the NHS just £1 for its services.
Britain’s National Health Service has given secretive U.S. tech firm Palantir access to private personal data of millions of (...)
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Zuckerberg : 50% of Facebook employees could be working remotely - 23 mai 2020
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said he predicts that 50% of the company’s employees could be working remotely within the next five to 10 years.
Zuckerberg announced that Facebook is going to “aggressively” ramp up its hiring of remote workers, and the company is going to take a “measured approach” to (...)
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American billionaires got $434 billion richer during the pandemic - 23 mai 2020
U.S. billionaires saw their fortunes soar by $434 billion during the nation’s lockdown between mid-March and mid-May, according to a new report.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg had the biggest gains.
Bezos added $34.6 billion to his wealth and Zuckerberg picked up $25 billion.
America’s (...)
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Robert Mercer starts big money effort for Trump campaign - 16 avril 2020
President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee have one of their old allies back in the big money fundraising game after he stepped back from helping the commander in chief.
Robert Mercer, one of Trump’s original financiers during his first run for president, gave his first six-figure check of the (...)
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Amazon asks for pause on Microsoft JEDI cloud contract - 30 janvier 2020
Amazon said Wednesday it filed a motion to pause Microsoft’s work on the Pentagon’s multibillion-dollar JEDI deal until a court rules on the protest of the contract award.
The Pentagon selected Microsoft over Amazon for the colossal contract on October 25.
In a Wednesday statement, AWS wrote, “It’s important that (...)
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23andMe lays off 100 people, CEO Anne Wojcicki explains why - 24 janvier 2020
23andMe is laying off 100 people, as consumer DNA tests are down.
CEO Anne Wojcicki didn’t have a clear explanation for that, but cited a variety of factors, including both recession fears and privacy concerns.
Wojcicki said she anticipated that DNA testing would explode when she co-founded the business in 2007, (...)
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Facebook fails to convince lawmakers it needs to track your location at all times - 21 décembre 2019
Facebook told two senators why it tracks users’ locations even when their tracking services are turned off. The lawmakers now say Facebook should give users more control over their data.
Facebook was responding to an inquiry from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., who asked Facebook last month (...)
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Apple removes police-tracking app used in Hong Kong protests from its app store - 10 octobre 2019
Apple on Wednesday removed an app that protesters in Hong Kong have used to track police movements from its app store, saying it violated rules because it was used to ambush police.
The U.S. tech giant had come under fire from China over the app, with the Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper calling the (...)
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Facebook uses its apps to track users it thinks could threaten employees and offices - 24 mai 2019
Facebook maintains a list of individuals that its security guards must "be on lookout" for that is comprised of users who’ve made threatening statements against the company on its social network as well as numerous former employees.
The company’s information security team is capable of tracking these individuals’ (...)
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Google uses Gmail to track a history of things you buy "” and it’s hard to delete - 18 mai 2019
Google tracks a lot of what you buy, even if you purchased it elsewhere, like in a store or from Amazon.
Last week, CEO Sundar Pichai wrote a New York Times op-ed that said "privacy cannot be a luxury good." But behind the scenes, Google is still collecting a lot of personal information from the services you (...)
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CNBC’S CHRISTINA FARR : APPLE IS IN TALKS WITH PRIVATE MEDICARE PLANS ABOUT BRINGING ITS WATCH TO AT-RISK SENIORS - 16 janvier 2019
Apple is in talks with private Medicare plans about getting Apple Watches into the hands — or wrists — of millions of people over the age of 65.
It makes a lot of sense for Apple to do that, health experts tell CNBC, since it could prevent pricey doctor or hospital visits.
Apple has previously signed a deal with (...)
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Google and Facebook are watching our every move online. It’s time to make them stop - 4 février 2018
To make any real progress in advancing data privacy this year, we have to start doing something about Google and Facebook. Not doing so would be like trying to lose weight without changing your diet. Simply ineffective.
The impact these two companies have on our privacy cannot be understated. You may know that (...)
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Drones set to be deployed by Los Angeles Police Department - 19 octobre 2017
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) signed off on a year-long test of drones on Tuesday, becoming the largest police department in the U.S. to deploy the technology.
Despite vociferous protest, the Los Angeles Police Commission "” the civilian board which oversees the department "” voted 3-1 in favor of the (...)
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Why Aetna’s CEO pays workers up to $500 to sleep - 11 avril 2016
Creating a culture that encourages workers to get more sleep can be a boon to your business, said Aetna Chairman and CEO Mark Bertolini.
Sleep is "really important," he said in an interview on CNBC’s "Squawk Box" on Tuesday. "Being present in the workplace and making better decisions has a lot to do with our (...)
