Brad Smith tells a US House committee that Microsoft “accepts responsibility” for the issues the CSRB found, its business in China serves US interests, and more
if they haven't shown good cybersecurity performance Jessica Lyons / The Register : Microsoft answered Congress' questions on security. Now the White House needs to act Sean Lyngaas / CNN : Microsoft ...
Google is aggressively pursuing a major cloud computing and AI contract with the Pentagon, three years after employee outcry ended similar work on Project Maven
& we will win again. https://www.nytimes.com/... @alphabetworkers : Our working conditions include our ethical concerns. Workers should have full transparency on the real world impacts of our labor AN...
Investigation into Amazon's warehouse safety, based on data from 150 warehouses between 2016-2019, finds rising injury rates, which Amazon has attempted to hide
what they're really doing is speeding up distribution, at greater risk to workers, who are suffering *more* injuries as a result https://revealnews.org/... Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant : This is just ...
Sources and documents detail a months-long cyberstalking and harassment campaign by members of eBay's security team against those behind the ECommerceBytes blog
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @kadhim , @nongaap , @abihabib , @gzuckerman , @kyweise , @rebeccaballhaus , @roncharles , @karissabe , @daviduberti , @harrymccracken , @arawnsley , @harrymccracken , @...
Inside Amazon's biggest COVID-19 warehouse outbreak, which occurred in northeastern Pennsylvania, where local lawmakers believe 100+ workers tested positive
without social distancing. https://www.nytimes.com/... @dealbook : At first, Amazon told workers about each new coronavirus case. But when the total reached about 60, the announcements stopped giving ...
Interviews with current and former staff, sellers, and suppliers on how Amazon dictates and unpredictably changes rules, punishes and threatens businesses
hundreds of thousands of companies from start-ups to giant brands — means it can squeeze them for profits, and in some cases, threaten their survival. https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes : Amazon pun...
Jeff Bezos' security chief says his investigation concluded with high confidence that Saudi Arabia “had access to Bezos' phone, and gained private information”
These are not April Fool items. Bobby Hellard / IT PRO : Jeff Bezos allegedly hacked by Saudi Arabia Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Security consultant claims Jeff Bezos' phone was hacked by Saudi Arab...
Facebook research group Social Science One to offer scholars access to a petabyte of anonymized user data to understand the role of misinformation in elections
Karen Weise / Bloomberg :
Inside Facebook's complicated relationship with academics: retaining the right to veto or edit papers, limits on access to data, and offers of research funding
the goody-goody research,” an ex-FBer told us. 5/ https://www.bloomberg.com/... Karen Weise / @kyweise : Folks, come down a weird and strangely interesting rabbit hole @sarahfrier and I fell into, abo...