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European Antitrust Authorities Probe Amazon…

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The top antitrust regulator in the European Union said Wednesday she is investigating Amazon’s relationship with independent merchants it hosts on its platform. Why it matters: If this were to turn into a formal investigation, it would represent a major headache for Amazon, as it faces allegations that it has unfair dominance over the market. […]

Bernie Sanders Introduces ‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to Tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers…

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) have introduced a bill that would tax companies like Amazon and Walmart for the cost of employees’ food stamps and other public assistance. Sanders’ Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act (abbreviated “Stop BEZOS”) — along with Khanna’s House of Representatives counterpart, the Corporate Responsibility […]

Google and Mastercard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales…

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For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the U.S. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google paid for. But most of the two […]

Was the Pentagon’s Cloud Computing Project Rigged?…

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At what point does lobbying cross over into the realm of crony capitalism and rigging the system? That’s a question many tech companies and the U.S. Congress are asking amid concerns that the bidding process for the Department of Defense’s cloud computing project has been fixed in favor of Amazon. The controversy began when the […]

Bernie Sanders to Billionaire Jeff Bezos: ‘Pay your workers a living wage’…

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One particular salary has irked Sen. Bernie Sanders: He cites Amazon founder Jeff Bezos makes $275 million a day, this according to Time magazine. “Jeff Bezos has so much money that he says the only way he could possibly spend it all is on space travel. Space travel. Have you ever heard of such a […]

Amazon Paying People to Tweet About How Their Working Conditions Don’t Suck…

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Amazon’s warehouse conditions aren’t awful, despite numerous reports from employees — or at least that’s what the tech giant’s small, paid Twitter army is attempting to promote. Amazon is paying a small team of Twitter users to combat the negative publicity the company is receiving on the social media platform about the working conditions in […]

Amazon’s Facial Recognition Tech Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress with Arrest Mugshots…

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Amazon Rekognition, the controversial facial recognition tool from the Silicon Valley tech giant, has falsely matched 28 members of US Congress with mugshots in its database, a new report from the American Civil Liberties Union revealed today. “These results demonstrate why Congress should join the ACLU in calling for a moratorium on law enforcement use […]

Facebook Reveals It Shared Your Data with 52 Companies, Including Foreign Corporations…

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Facebook has confirmed that it shared user information with 52 companies that manufacture hardware and software, including some based in China. The social media giant made the disclosure in a 747-page report it provided Friday to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The list features major American tech companies such as Amazon, Apple and Microsoft. […]

Facial Recognition Software Is Not Ready for Use by Law Enforcement…

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Recent news of Amazon’s engagement with law enforcement to provide facial recognition surveillance (branded “Rekognition”), along with the almost unbelievable news of China’s use of the technology, means that the technology industry needs to address the darker, more offensive side of some of its more spectacular advancements. Facial recognition technologies, used in the identification of […]

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