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Google And Facebook’s Security Guards Are Fighting To Earn A Living Wage
The effort began at an Applebee’s in Redwood City, a link in a chain of towns that dot that peninsula that connects San Francisco to Silicon Valley. Robert Taitt, a security officer who works on Facebook’s campus, signed his union card there. He was one of the first of more than 3000 Silicon Valley security…
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Amazon Workers Demand Jeff Bezos Cancel Face Recognition Contracts With Law Enforcement
Following employee protests at Google and Microsoft over government contracts, workers at Amazon are circulating an internal letter to CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to stop selling the company’s Rekognition facial recognition software to law enforcement and to boot the data-mining firm Palantir from its cloud services.
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Students Pledge To Refuse Job Interviews At Google In Protest Of Pentagon Work
Google will not seek to renew its artificial intelligence contract with the US Department of Defence after it expires next year, Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene told employees last week. But despite the revelation that the contract has an end date, the pushback against it continues – within the company and externally.
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How To Download Your Data With All The Fancy New GDPR Tools
The big new European data-privacy law known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is here, and it’s ushered in a host of changes to the way companies treat your personal information.