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Automated Systems Trapping Citizens in Bureaucratic Limbo - 5 juin 2020
Lindsay Perry was 30 weeks pregnant and on bedrest when her husband Justin was accused of unemployment fraud and fined $10,000 after losing his job as a chef in 2014. The couple, who disputed the charges, tried calling the state unemployment agency, sending messages online, and even repeatedly showing up in (...)
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New Study Shows Scale of Abuse Against Women on Twitter - 24 mai 2020
Amnesty International has released a study detailing the scale of threats made against women on Twitter, calling the social media platform “a toxic place” in what it claims is the “world’s biggest dataset of online abuse targeting women.”
In partnership with Element AI, an artificial intelligence software company, a (...)
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China Has Detained the Relatives of Four U.S. Journalists, Report Says - 1er mars 2018
China has detained the relatives of four U.S.-based journalists in an apparent retaliatory crackdown that marks the latest in hostilities against members of the press who cover the restive Muslim-majority Xinjiang region, the Washington Post reports.
Four ethnic Uighur journalists with Radio Free Asia in (...)
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California Court Gets One Step Closer to Deciding Uber’s Fate - 2 septembre 2015
Lawyers argued over whether 160,000 Uber drivers in California can be treated as one class
For Uber’s lawyers, the case heard before theirs in a San Francisco courtroom on Thursday may have looked like a harbinger of future woes.
California Northern District Judge Edward Chen was going over the details of a $227 (...)
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Google Lost Data After Lightning Hit Its Data Center in Belgium - 20 août 2015
It says it is making upgrades to prevent it from happening again in the future
Despite the popular saying, lightning does strike twice, or even four times "” as it did at a Google data center in Belgium last Thursday, causing problems for the next several days and leading to permanent data loss for a small (...)
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NSA Fears Prompt Germany to End Verizon Contract - 27 juin 2014
The German government is ending a contract with Verizon over fears the company could be letting U.S. intelligence agencies eavesdrop on sensitive communications, officials said Thursday.
The New York-based company has for years provided Internet services to a number of government departments, although not to (...)
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How Much Time Have You Wasted on Facebook ? - 1er février 2014
Facebook will celebrate its 10th birthday next week. Created in a dorm room by Mark Zuckerberg and a few friends, TheFacebook.com came to life on Feb. 4, 2004. In its decade of existence, the social network has attracted 1.1 billion users, and all their pokes, wall posts, baby photos and engagement announcements (...)
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Facebook & Work : Will Friending Your Manager Help Your Career ? - 9 novembre 2012
Not long ago, I thought it was a bad idea to friend your boss on Facebook because of the possibility that revealing too much could hurt your progress at your current job, as well as any future opportunities. Lately, I’ve had a slight change of heart.
In recent months, I’ve asked my Facebook friends and subscribers (...)
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Can Interviewers Insist on "˜Shoulder Surfing’ Your Facebook Page ? - 14 mars 2012
Privacy advocates say that, for now, it is legal for a prospective employer, during a job interview, to insist that you log into your Facebook page and then click through your "friends only" posts, photos and messages.
The ACLU put a stop to companies demanding that applicants turn over their login and password (...)
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Now Credit Card Companies Want Your DNA - 27 octobre 2011
A Wall Street Journal article earlier this week reported that Visa and MasterCard are exploring new ways to take data about your buying habits in the brick-and-mortar world and let online marketers use that information to target you with ads when you browse the web. But buried a little ways down in the article are (...)
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How Facebook Is Redefining Privacy - 23 mai 2010
Sometime in the next few weeks, Facebook will officially log its 500 millionth active citizen. If the website were granted terra firma, it would be the world’s third largest country by population, two-thirds bigger than the U.S. More than 1 in 4 people who browse the Internet not only have a Facebook account but (...)
