reader comments 51 with 41 posters participating Share this story Apple employees want to know if they’re being paid equitably, so some of them have been sending surveys to their colleagues to collect compensation information. The surveys are all opt-in, and several hundred people have participated so far. The surveys stem in part from the ..
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Enlarge / Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, steps out of the hearing room before testifying about the government response to the novel coronavirus pandemic to the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill May 14, 2020, in Washington, DC. reader comments 144 with 92 posters participating Share ..
reader comments 52 with 44 posters participating Share this story For years, employers have used surveillance to keep tabs on their employees on the job. Cameras have watched as workers moved cash in and out of registers, GPS has reported on the movements of employees driving company vehicles, and software has been monitoring people’s work ..
reader comments 82 with 64 posters participating, including story author Share this story On Sunday, District Court Judge Kathleen Williams issued a preliminary injunction that blocks the state of Florida from enforcing a law that would have blocked cruise lines from requiring their passengers provide COVID-19 vaccine records. While this is a temporary injunction that ..
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino reader comments 448 with 221 posters participating Share this story Apple today said it will refuse any government demands to expand its new photo-scanning technology beyond the current plan of using it only to detect CSAM (child sexual abuse material). Apple has faced days of criticism from security experts, privacy ..
Getty Images | GreyParrot reader comments 65 with 58 posters participating Share this story When Facebook disabled the accounts of New York University researchers who were investigating misinformation and political ads on the platform, the social-media giant claimed it did so to comply with a consent decree that it previously agreed to with the Federal ..
reader comments 691 with 284 posters participating Share this story Shortly after reports today that Apple will start scanning iPhones for child-abuse images, the company confirmed its plan and provided details in a news release and technical summary. “Apple’s method of detecting known CSAM (child sexual abuse material) is designed with user privacy in mind,” ..
Enlarge / A CenturyLink service van parked in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on May 2, 2019. reader comments 168 with 126 posters participating Share this story CenturyLink is selling large portions of its copper network in 20 states to a private-equity firm, letting the telco pull out of rural areas where it doesn’t plan to ..
reader comments 78 with 59 posters participating Share this story Cybersecurity at eight federal agencies is so poor that four of them earned grades of D, three got Cs, and only one received a B in a report issued Tuesday by a US Senate Committee. “It is clear that the data entrusted to these eight ..
Enlarge / A sign held during a protest on March 27, 2021 in Birmingham, Alabama. Getty Images | Patrick T. Fallon reader comments 101 with 76 posters participating Share this story Amazon interfered with a union-certification vote, and a second election should be held, a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) official wrote in a report ..
