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Google Agrees to More Changes in How It Handles Harassment, Misconduct Complaints
Apr 25 2019 // Google unveiled another round of policy changes to address employee concerns about misconduct at the world’s largest internet search company. Staff can now lodge complaints and concerns about harassment and other...
EU’s New Copyright Rules Could Hurt Google, Facebook
Apr 15 2019 // Google will have to pay publishers for news snippets and Facebook filter out protected content under new copyright rules aimed at ensuring fair compensation for the European Union’s $1 trillion creative...
How Real Are ‘Ethical Artificial Intelligence’ Efforts by Tech Giants?
Apr 11 2019 // The biggest tech companies want the public to know that they’re taking special care to ensure that their use of artificial intelligence to sift through mountains of data, analyze faces or build virtual assistants...
Google Will Require Contractors to Offer Benefits, Minimum Wage
Apr 5 2019 // Google says it will require staffing companies it works with to pay workers at least $15 an hour and give them health benefits. The company has faced pushback from employees and contract workers for paying contractors less...
Supreme Court Casts Doubt on $8.5 Million Google Privacy Settlement
Mar 21 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday put in jeopardy an $8.5 million settlement Google made with users to resolve a class action lawsuit accusing it of violating their privacy by sharing users’ search queries with...
EU Decision to Put Bermuda on List of Global Tax Havens ‘a Setback’: Premier Burt
Mar 13 2019 // Bermuda’s Premier David Burt on Tuesday called the European Union’s decision to put the British overseas territory on a list of global tax havens “a setback” but said he was confident it would soon...
Democrats Propose Ban on Mandatory Arbitration in Employment, Consumer Contracts
Mar 1 2019 // Six Google employees on Thursday joined U.S. lawmakers to support bills that would ban mandatory arbitration in employment and consumer contracts, as the workers seek to build on recent success in getting the Alphabet Inc...
Look Who Is Betting on the Agency System
Feb 15 2019 // According to some pundits, buyers should all be online and the agency system should be dead by now. However, it appears not everyone got that memo. Here are some recent examples of companies, techies and investors betting...
Google, Amazon Expanding Smart Home Device Data Gathering
Feb 12 2019 // As Amazon.com Inc. and Google work to place their smart speakers at the center of the internet-connected home, both technology giants are expanding the amount of data they gather about customers who use their voice...
U.S. Privacy Regulation Tested by Facebook Scandals
Jan 24 2019 // Facebook Inc.’s repeated privacy scandals have infuriated users, lawmakers and data-security advocates who are clamoring for a forceful government response. That job mainly falls to Joe Simons, who is under pressure...
France Fines Google $57M for Breaching EU’s Data Privacy Rules Under GDPR
Jan 23 2019 // France’s data protection watchdog fined Alphabet’s Google 50 million euros ($57 million) on Monday [Jan. 21] for breaching European Union online privacy rules, the biggest such penalty levied against a U.S....
From Banks to Telecoms, Large Firms Disclose Risks, Opportunities of Climate Change
Jan 22 2019 // Bank of America Corp. worries flooded homeowners will default on their mortgages. The Walt Disney Co. is concerned its theme parks will get too hot for vacationers, while AT&T Inc. fears hurricanes and wildfires may...
Who’s Investing in the Agency System
Jan 21 2019 // According to some pundits, the agency system should be dead by now. However, it appears not everyone got that memo. Here are some recent examples of companies, techies and investors putting their money where their mouth is...
Alphabet Directors Sued Over Exit Pay, Coverups Tied to Harassment Allegations
Jan 11 2019 // Alphabet Inc.’s directors were sued by shareholders for approving a $90 million exit payment to Andy Rubin, the creator of the Android mobile software, while helping cover up his alleged misconduct and similar...
How Big Tech Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Stop Hackers
Jan 3 2019 // Last year, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure security team detected suspicious activity in the cloud computing usage of a large retailer: One of the company’s administrators, who usually logs on from New York, was trying...
How Big Tech Flirted with Insurance in 2018
Jan 2 2019 // The almost weekly headlines about insurers and venture capitalists investing in insurtechs and tech-savvy insurance startups sometimes blocked the view of what established big technology firms were doing in...
Judge Dismisses Privacy Suit Against Google Over Facial Recognition Technology
Dec 31 2018 // A lawsuit filed against Google by users who said the world’s largest search engine violated their privacy by using facial recognition technology was dismissed by a judge on Saturday. U.S. District Judge Edmond E....
Computer Model Identifies Risky Restaurants in Near Real Time
Dec 4 2018 // A new computer model is proving significantly more accurate in identifying potentially unsafe restaurants when compared with existing methods of consumer complaints and routine inspections. The model uses machine learning...
IBM Joins Critics Calling for Regulation of Tech Firms’ Personal Data Use
Nov 28 2018 // International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty joined a growing chorus of tech executives lambasting web platforms, like Google and Facebook Inc., over their collection of user data and urged...
Waymo’s First Driverless Car Service Seen Right Around the Corner
Nov 13 2018 // In just a few weeks, humanity may take its first paid ride into the age of driverless cars. Waymo, the secretive subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., is planning to launch the world’s first...
