China’s Tech Giants Test Way Around Apple’s New Privacy Rules
By: Financial Times March 16, 2021 Some of China’s biggest technology companies, including ByteDance and Tencent, are testing a tool to bypass Apple’s new privacy rules and continue tracking iPhone users without their consent to serve them targeted mobile advertisements. Apple is expected in the coming weeks to roll out changes it announced […]
Biden Administration Convenes Government, Private Sector Groups to Respond to Microsoft Vulnerabilities
By: The Hill March 17, 2021 White House officials said Wednesday that the Biden administration has formally stood up a task force of government and private sector groups as it works to investigate and respond to the recently uncovered cyber espionage incident involving a Microsoft email application. Press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed in a statement […]
MEPs Back Law to Hold Firms to Account for Environment and Human Rights Abuses
By: The Guardian March 10, 2021 Big majority in EU parliament vote for corporate due diligence along entire supply chains, which will include UK businesses The EU took a step closer to holding companies to account for environmental damage and human rights abuses committed by their subsidiaries and suppliers overseas, with a vote […]
Using AI-Powered Spacecraft Is The Only Way To Clean Up Space
By: City AM March 17, 2021 In 1978 NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler proposed a theoretical scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit due to space pollution becomes high enough that collisions between objects starts to cause a chain reaction whereby each collision generates more space debris, which then increases […]
Facebook’s Long-Awaited Content ‘Supreme Court’ Has Arrived. It’s A Clever Sham
By: The Guardian March 17, 2021 In October, Facebook unveiled its long-awaited “oversight board” – a special, semi-independent body, staffed mainly by experts on free speech and constitutional law, with the authority to make decisions about controversial content posted on Facebook’s platform. Sometimes described as Facebook’s “supreme court”, the oversight board has been met, in the legal […]
Uber To Pay UK Drivers Minimum Wage, Holiday Pay and Pension
By: The Guardian March 16, 2021 Move follows supreme court ruling that drivers are workers but critics say they are still short-changed Uber is to guarantee its 70,000 UK drivers a minimum hourly wage, holiday pay and pensions after a landmark supreme court ruling. The ride-hailing app said drivers would start benefiting […]
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 […]