Leaked Memo Shows Amazon Knows Delivery Drivers Resort To Urinating In Bottles
By: The Guardian March 26, 2021 Amazon caused an uproar on Thursday when it denied reports that its delivery workers have been forced to urinate in bottles due to lack of access to bathrooms, but a leaked internal memo shows the company has been aware of the problem for at least several months. Documents provided by employees […]
UK’s Biggest Fund Manager Expected To Shun Deliveroo Float
By: The Guardian March 25, 2021 The UK’s biggest fund manager is expected to shun Deliveroo’s upcoming stock market float, along with a growing number of other investors, due to concerns about the food delivery company’s treatment of workers – which one described as a “ticking bomb”. Legal & General said on Thursday it […]
Tech CEOs Grilled Over Role In Capitol Attack As Protesters Mock Them With Giant Cutouts
By: The Guardian March 25, 2021 The CEOs of America’s biggest technology companies faced a grilling on Thursday from Congress about the 6 January insurrection at the Capitol, as protesters outside the hearing denounced the platforms for playing a role in fueling the violence. The marathon, six-hour hearing saw the three most powerful […]
TSMC: How a Taiwanese Chipmaker Became a Linchpin of the Global Economy
By: The Financial Times March 24, 2021 When Li Ta-sen was a little boy, he used to walk to school through fields of sugarcane taller than himself. Some 40 years later, he is making a living by selling off the same fields as a property boom takes hold in his hometown of Shanhua. The […]
What a Gambling App Knows About You
By: New York Times March 24, 2021 LONDON — When Gregg finally stopped gambling in late 2018, he was in a dire financial position. He had lost nearly $15,000 during a nine-month betting binge, on top of two outstanding loans totaling more than $70,000 and a mortgage of more than $150,000 on his small […]
Facebook: The Billion Dollar Bot Problem
By: The Financial Times March 23, 2021 Facebook or Fakebook? In the last quarter of 2020 the US social media giant disabled 1.3bn fake accounts — a tally equal to almost half its real monthly active users. User accounts are the basis for advertising sales that make up almost all of Facebook’s revenues. If […]
Privacy Is Not Dead; It’s Powerful
By: IAPP Date: March 23, 2021 For decades, people have proclaimed a now-common refrain that “privacy is dead.” So get on with it, they say. You probably know some of the most famous of the post-privacy pundits. No doubt, the oft-quoted Scott McNealy, then CEO at Sun Microsystems, eternally quipped, “You have zero […]
Italians Urged To Boycott Amazon To Support Day Of Strikes
By: The Guardian March 22 2021 Italian consumers were urged by unions to refrain from buying from Amazon for the day on Monday as about 40,000 of the online shopping giant’s logistical workers held a national strike over working conditions. It is the first walkout in Italy to affect Amazon’s entire supply chain and involves warehouse and […]
New Effort To Clean Up Space Junk Reaches Orbit
By: NPR March 21, 2020 A demonstration mission to test an idea to clean up space debris launched Monday morning local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Known as ELSA-d, the mission will exhibit technology that could help capture space junk, the millions of pieces of orbital debris that float above Earth. The more […]