China Tells Alibaba To Sell Off Media Assets In Tech Crackdown
By: The Guardian March 16, 2021 Beijing has ordered e-commerce company Alibaba to sell off media assets including Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) as the Chinese government looks to crack down on the growing public influence held by the country’s sprawling tech conglomerates. Alibaba has become the lightning rod in the crackdown on big tech […]
Banking On Building Back Better – How Can A Stakeholder Economy Help Rebuild The UK After COVID-19?
By: Social Market Foundation March 16, 2021 This essay series, collected in partnership with the Chartered Banker Institute, re-evaluates the concept of the stakeholder economy in light of the economic and social shockwaves delivered by the Coronavirus pandemic. Contributors to the collection include Government and Shadow ministers, and the CEOs of banks including TSB […]
Some Capitol Hill Lawmakers Back Amazon Workers’ Attempt To Unionize
By: NPR One March 15 , 2021 Employees at an Amazon facility in Alabama are voting on whether to form a union. Some in Congress support them, including Michigan Democratic Rep. Andy Levin, who talks to NPR’s Noel King. Nearly 6,000 Amazon employees who work at a warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., are voting […]
Hundreds of Tesla Workers Tested Positive At Reopened Plant
By: The Hill March 14, 2021 Hundreds of workers at a reopened Tesla plant in California tested positive for COVID-19 between May and December, according to data released by a transparency website on Friday. The website PlainSite released data from the Alameda County Department of Public Health that found 440 workers at the […]
Chief executive of Jack Ma’s Ant Group steps down
By: City AM March 12, 2021 Simon Hu has reportedly resigned as chief executive of Ant Group after just over a year in the role. Hu resigned for personal reasons according to Bloomberg, and he will be replaced by Ant Group chairman Eric Jing with immediate effect. He joined Alibaba in 2005 before […]
Amazon Removing Books That Frame LGBTQ Issues As Mental Illness
By: The Hill March 12, 2021 Amazon has made the decision recently to remove books from its catalog that frame transgender and other LGBTQ identities as mental illnesses, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The move came after four Republicans — Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Mike Lee (Utah), Mike Braun (Ind.) and Josh Hawley (Mo.) — sent a letter on Feb. 24 to chief […]
Slick Tom Cruise Deepfakes Signal That Near Flawless Forgeries May Be Here
By: NPR March 11, 2021 In a crop of viral videos featuring Tom Cruise, it’s not the actor’s magic trick nor his joke-telling that’s deceptive — but the fact that it’s not actually Tom Cruise at all. The videos, uploaded to TikTok in recent weeks by the account @deeptomcruise, have raised new fears over the […]
China Creates a Digital Vaccine Passport
By: New York Times March 10, 2021 China on Monday introduced a digital vaccine passport to track its citizens’ medical history as they begin to travel abroad. The health certificate, which runs on Tencent’s WeChat messaging app, will include a user’s Covid-19 test and vaccination history, and is intended to enable international travel, according to a […]
America Grapples With Regulating Surveillance Technology
By: The Economist March 9, 2021 AMONG THE most pernicious aspects of the range of surveillance technologies available to the average police force is how they can render the visible invisible. For instance, you would notice if a police officer walked down your street every day, writing down the licence plates of every car. A police […]