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- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insiderwo. 1 jul. ’20
More Tesla employees say they were fired for staying home over COVID-19 fears even though CEO Elon Musk said they could
Three more employees of Tesla’s Fremont factory told The Washington Post they were fired for staying home for fear of catching COVID-19, despite Elon Musk’s guidance telling workers they’re not obligated to come to work. The recent firings come days …
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- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insiderdi. 30 jun. ’20
Leaked documents show how police used social media to track George Floyd protesters
Leaked documents show how law enforcement has kept tabs on demonstrators since anti-police-brutality protests first broke out after the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody. Police exchanged protesters’ Twitter handles, noted…
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- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insiderma. 29 jun. ’20
Reddit just banned r/The_Donald, the largest pro-Trump subreddit, as it cracks down on hate speech and targeting
Reddit just banned the biggest pro-Trump forum on its site, saying the subreddit broke its rules about harassment and targeting. The subreddit, r/The_Donald, was one of roughly 2,000 communities that were banned across Reddit on Monday, CEO Steve Huf…
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- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insidervr. 26 jun. ’20
The Trump administration told Facebook and Twitter to remove posts that call for tearing down statues
The Trump administration is pressuring social media outlets to take action against posts that encourage toppling statues and other “criminal activity” amid nationwide protests. The Department of Homeland Security sent a series of letters to companies…
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- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insidervr. 26 jun. ’20
Unilever is halting ads on Facebook and Twitter in the US for the rest of 2020. It’s one of the biggest companies to pull ads over hate-speech concerns.
Unilever said on Friday that it would halt ads on Facebook and Twitter in the US for the rest of 2020, saying the platforms needed to do much more to enforce policies about hate speech. It’s one of the biggest companies in recent weeks to announce pl…
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- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insidervr. 26 jun. ’20
HHS is paying Peter Thiel’s Palantir $24.9 million to track coronavirus. Lawmakers want to know if it’s using that data to help ICE deport people.
Fifteen Latino lawmakers are demanding answers about the Department of Health and Human Services’ $24.9 million coronavirus contract with Palantir, a company that has contracts with ICE. Palantir is a data-mining firm founded by Trump megadonor Peter…
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- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insiderwo. 24 jun. ’20
US lawmakers are investigating a company that sells people’s phone location data to the FBI
Members of Congress have opened an investigation into a data analytics company that sells people’s phone location data to government agencies including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. The company, Venntel, aggregates location data from s…
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- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insiderwo. 24 jun. ’20
Boston just became the latest city to ban use of facial recognition technology
Boston just banned the use of facial recognition technology by city agencies. It is the second-largest city in the world to do so, behind San Francisco. The Boston City Council voted unanimously to ban the technology in the city Wednesday. The move a…
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- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insiderwo. 24 jun. ’20
Twitter has permanently banned the group that published the ‘BlueLeaks’ police files obtained by hackers
Twitter has permanently banned DDoSecrets, a Wikileaks-style group that published a trove of sensitive police documents that were leaked by hackers. The leaks included hundreds of gigabytes of files that showed police departments exchanging informati…
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- Aaron Holmes voor Business Insiderdi. 23 jun. ’20
The government gave him $1.5 million in COVID-19 paycheck loans. Prosecutors say he spent it on a Tesla.
A Texas man is facing federal charges for allegedly scamming the government out of $1.5 million in COVID-19 payroll grants and using it to buy a Tesla. In an indictment unsealed on Tuesday, Fahad Shah is accused of lying about the number of employees…
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