Click here to download the Spanish translation of this article. (Haga clic aquí para descargar la traducción al español de este artículo.) Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has given new license to the killing of Indigenous people in Brazil. Before he ...
Vivek Murthy, President Biden’s nominee for surgeon general, joined the likes of Amazon and AstraZeneca to take advantage of the pandemic to become noticeably richer. Murthy, who previously served as surgeon general in the Obama ...
Workers at one of Amazon’s warehouses are deciding whether or not to join a union. Amazon’s union-busting efforts indicate just how important the vote is. Thousands of warehouse workers at an Amazon plant in Bessemer, ...
If we think inequality was bad before Covid-19, it’s about to get a whole lot worse. (Common Dreams) Six months into a global pandemic, the US economy just took its most grievous hit on record, ...
“This is a dire health and safety emergency because the state is not taking care of workers at Tesla” Tesla employees and members of a workers’ rights group accused car company Tesla of a coronavirus ...
“This is a really big deal. This kind of courage is what we need right now, in every workplace and walk of life.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Amazon vice president Tim Bray won praise from ...
“Our society cannot sustain itself when so few have so much, while so many have so little,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Amplifying fresh critiques of wealthy inequality that have mounted ...
“Taking action cost me my job,” said Chris Smalls. “Because I tried to stand up for something that’s right, the company decided to retaliate against me.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) New York Attorney General ...
“One of the best ways to thank essential workers is to support the fight to improve their lives.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Labor rights advocates on Monday urged the public to show support and ...
A man worth over $100 billion, who makes, on average, $230,000 per minute calling on the public to help his own impoverished employees was not met well by many. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Amazon ...
Workers at the New York fulfillment center denounced the company for reopening the facility just one day after the positive case was reported. (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Two days after 1,500 Amazon workers around ...
Corporations came to Virginia schools offering career and tech training—but local teachers and parents are wary that they put profits before students. The national discussion about the movement to privatize America’s public schools has mostly focused on ...
Within hours of a video file being sent by WhatsApp to Bezos “a massive and unauthorized exfiltration of data from Bezos’s phone began, continuing and escalating for months.” Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) ...
Over a dozen groups call for a full congressional investigation in the online giant citing threats to privacy, security, and civil liberties posed by Alexa, Ring, and Rekognition. (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Amazon must ...
Indonesian fires this year emitted nearly twice the amount of greenhouse gases as the forest fires that razed parts of the Brazilian Amazon, new research shows. (By Hans Nicholas Jong, MongoBay) Fires from land and ...
Big tech is opening its pocketbooks to fight growing anti-trust and consumer scrutiny. (By Andrew Prez and Tim Zelina, MapLight) With calls for big tech companies to be broken up growing louder, Silicon Valley is ...
The assassination of Paulo Paulino Guajajara, a member of an Amazon defenders group known as the “Guardians of the Forest,” has prompted outrage from indigenous rights and environmentalist groups. (By Karla Mendes, Mongabay) Paulo Paulino ...
When Indigenous people fight to defend and enforce their land rights, they are protecting their future—and ours. This summer, a court in Ecuador issued a ruling with profound implications for the urgent fight to save ...
The right only denies global warming because its climate ‘science’ has surrendered to capitalists. The man-made Amazon fires are for clearing the land of its forests and indigenous people. The benefits are for Jair Bolsonaro’s ...
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have spent more than $330 million on attempts to influence federal lawmakers since 2008. (By Frank Bass, MapLight) The nation’s largest tech companies, which are currently facing state and federal investigations to determine ...
An unexpected guest, a financial pledge for the Amazon, trade talks, and Russia’s reinstatement were just some of the key topics discussed at the 2019 G-7 summit in Biarritz. On Monday, the 2019 Group of ...
“After four decades of weak antitrust enforcement and judicial hostility to antitrust cases, it is critical that Congress step in to determine whether existing laws are adequate to tackle abusive conduct by platform gatekeepers or ...
Both Germany and Norway are pulling donations to Brazil’s Amazon fund over concerns that the Brazilian government is promoting the spread of deforestation. The Norwegian government has reportedly suspended donations allocated to the Brazilian government’s ...
A compelling film on Netflix, The Great Hack, adds to our understanding of big tech’s threat to democracy and explains how a lot of “tools” came out of the military’s psychological operations (or psyops) and ...
A huge cattle ranch business is flouting bans designed to protect the rainforest and selling its cows to the world’s largest meat company. (By Andrew Wasley, Alexandra Heal, Dom Phillips, Daniel Camargos, Mie Lainio, André Campos, Diego Junqueira, The Bureau of Investigative ...
Amazon, Facebook and Google for the first time ever are among the top 15 lobbying spenders in a single quarter. (By Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics) Facing tremendous pressure from regulators and lawmakers from ...
“The anger is very real. Workers are taxed to the hilt. Why should large groups – Google, Amazon – be able to find a way round it?” France is pioneering big tech regulation with a ...
“With Bolsonaro, people who destroy forests feel safe and those who protect forests feel threatened.” Deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest reached its fastest rate in a decade last month, according to satellite images from Brazilian space ...
“This is about how do we get competition back in this space,” said Congressman David N. Cicilline of Rhode Island as he announced antitrust investigations into big tech. The world of big tech was shaken ...
“We want Amazon’s board to oversee and disclose how Amazon is addressing the significant risks posed by the sale of facial recognition technology.” Amazon has recently faced pressure from its investors over the sale of ...
Was Amazon’s $15 minimum wage pay raise merely a public relations stunt? Some workers at grocery store chain Whole Foods are complaining that after receiving a much-lauded pay raise last fall their hours are being ...
“They’ve bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field against everyone else.” (Reuters) – Senator Elizabeth Warren said on Friday that if elected U.S. president she would seek to break ...
The FBI is employing a new method to catch criminals: Amazon’s facial recognition software known as Rekognition. Using Amazon Rekognition, Amazon’s relatively new facial recognition software, allows the FBI to expedite sifting through surveillance footage ...
Apple currently employs about 90,000 people in the United States. About 6,000 of those employees are already in Austin, with thousands more to come. As the saying goes, everything is bigger in Texas, and now ...
Sellers on the Amazon marketplace allege the company’s marketplace favors Amazon private label brands over independent sellers. The largest internet company in the world, Amazon, is being investigated for monopoly power abuse in Germany. While ...
The workers in Amazon warehouses in Europe sought to highlight atrocious working conditions, including Injuries from accidents, overworked employees collapsing unconscious on the floor, constant robotic surveillance and workers having to skip toilet breaks to ...
The limits of machine learning were realized when Amazon tried to build an AI engine to screen for the top talent in a pool of job applicants. Amazon wanted an automated process for screening job ...
After intense scrutiny over Amazon pay rates and worker treatment, is Amazon’s new minimum wage hike a PR move or a sign of a company cultural shift? Effective next month, all Amazon employees in the ...
Domestic Traders To Oppose, Plan To Move Competition Commission (NewsClick.In) New Delhi: In bad news for domestic retail trade, the world’s largest online retailer Amazon has partnered with Indian private equity firm Samara Capital — ...
Amazon successfully patented a design for humans to work alongside robots in Amazon warehouses, though they are unlikely to ever actually implement the novel idea. The 2016 patent has humans sit inside of a metal ...
An international arbitration court made the latest ruling in favor of Chevron in the never-ending legal case between Chevron and Ecuadorian residents who claim their land and water was contaminated by the company over a period ...
Walmart is perhaps Amazon’s only real competition, and now Walmart is looking to make more aggressive moves into the digital shopping experience by creating a fully functional virtual reality shopping experience. The giant retailer has ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) condemns Amazon’s facial recognition tool, Rekognition, as invasive and dangerous. Rekognition is powered by artificial intelligence. It is capable of identifying faces from photo databases with several millions of ...
Amazon is buying Whole Foods, and that’s bad news for humans. (Other Words, by Jim Hightower) Wall Street analysts tell us that Amazon’s $14 billion buyout of Whole Foods isn’t only a win-win for both of them, ...
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