arbitration
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23andMe Blames Data Breach Victims For Weak Passwords
What happens when a company loses a bunch of user data? Typically, they apologize and sheepishly beg for forgiveness. Not so with 23andMe. The popular genomics company, which suffered a pretty terrible data breach last year, has instead opted to tell pissed-off customers that they probably should’ve picked a better password if they didn’t want…
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Self-Driving Car Guru Ordered To Pay Google $179 Million Over Messy Contract Dispute
A former employee of Google and Uber credited as being one of the top engineers in the self-driving vehicle space, Anthony Levandowski, has reportedly filed for bankruptcy after he was ordered to cough up $US179 ($271) million to settle with Google over an apparent contract breach.
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Google Workers’ Fight To End Forced Arbitration Heads To D.C.
In a bustling room inside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday afternoon, a group of survivors wearing black pins stand behind a podium that reads #EndForcedArbitration. They are all waiting to share their stories — of sexual harassment, of sexual assault, of racial discrimination, of unfair labour practices, of consumer exploitation. The common thread connecting these…
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Thousands Call On Amazon To Stop Forcing Contractors To Settle Complaints In Secret
Photo: Getty Thousands of activists delivered an open letter to Amazon this week urging the company to free its contractors from forced arbitration.