The US CFPB orders online payday lender LendUp to shutter lending operations after finding it repeatedly lied to and illegally cheated its customers
it has been a long time coming. In other news, anyone looking to buy my shares of LendUp? Rohit Chopra / @chopracfpb : We will be working to provide redress to borrowers cheated by...
Nick Clegg, who shaped Facebook's handling of Donald Trump, will lead the final decision-making process after the Oversight Board handed it back to Facebook
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Sources detail Amazon's tactics during the Alabama union campaign, including “captive audience meetings”, as workers explain why the union was unconvincing
Some SMB owners who advertise heavily online say Facebook is speaking the truth about how iOS privacy changes might disproportionately affect such businesses
With big changes coming to iPhones, small online merchants are bracing for lost sales. ‘Why is Apple now the decider?’
AI researchers doubt the efficacy and ethics of emotion recognition tech, as studies show facial expressions match a person's emotions only 20%-30% of the time
People's facial expressions line up with their emotions less than half the time — OneZero's General Intelligence is a roundup … Tweets: @robmccargow , @hypervisible , @autscipers...
Interview with Stanford comp lit professor Adrian Daub on the naiveté of undergrads eager to work in tech, “useless” VC Twitter, and challenges to SV narratives
In the early 2010s, professor Adrian Daub began noticing changes in some Stanford undergraduates that troubled him. Tweets: @toddwalker , @dancharvey , @issielapowsky , @protocol ,...
Leaked audio recordings and internal posts show Mark Zuckerberg's balancing act, as employees demand a harder line against Trump but users want the opposite
Amid the pandemic, tech companies are moving workplace incentives out of the office, focusing more on time-off allowances for parents and mental health support
Arielle Pardes / Wired : Tweets: @nmainland and @dancharvey Tweets: Nathalie Mainland / @nmainland : “In the long term this is not a pandemic response app, it's a system for engag...
Alphabet, Microsoft, Salesforce, and others are offering tools to get workers back in offices, despite extending their own remote working policies into 2021
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Supply chain algorithms used by companies like Walmart and Amazon, which rely on past data to forecast demand, have been completely upended by the pandemic
The data the algorithms use isn't reliable — Even during a pandemic, Walmart's supply chain managers have to make sure stores … Tweets: @dancharvey Tweets: Dan fine coffee / @dan...
When former tech execs reinvent themselves as experts on taming Big Tech, they seize attention and resources, which undermines the work of independent activists
The tech executive turned data justice warrior is celebrated as a truth-telling hero, but there's something a bit too smooth about this narrative arc.
PayPal says it is withdrawing from Facebook's Libra Association, becoming the first of its founding members to do so
PayPal is withdrawing from Facebook's Libra Association, the company announced Friday. — “PayPal has made the decision to forgo further participation in the Libra Association …