Barclays drops staff spying software after backlash
By: Telegraph Feb 20, 2020 Barclays is scrapping technology which allowed bosses to spy on its bankers following a backlash over the invasion of staff privacy. The bank is axing tracking software which allows managers to see how long employees are spending away from their desks and the time it takes to do different tasks at their computers. Introduced in […]
Business and the next recession
By: Economist Feb 20, 2020 Cast your mind back to 2007. Flashy types were showing off their first-generation iPhones. Netflix sent dvds through the post for people who did not have the time to drop into a branch of Blockbuster. The biggest firms in the world were old-economy stalwarts such as General Electric and Royal Dutch Shell. […]
How to make sense of the latest tech surge
By: Economist Feb 20, 2020 In 2018 a new word entered Silicon Valley’s lexicon: the “techlash”, or the risk of a consumer and regulatory revolt against big tech. Today that threat seems empty. Even as regulators discuss new rules and activists fret about the right to privacy, the shares of the five biggest American tech firms […]
The EU wants to set the rules for the world of technology
By: The Economist Feb 20, 2020 Mark zuckerberg might not have liked everything he heard, but Facebook’s boss got the timing right for a recent visit to Brussels. He was among the first outsiders to hear about the European Union’s ambitious plans to keep the technology industry in check, outlined in a series of documents made […]