New Orleans When Amazon suddenly buys Whole Foods, and some hidden part of your psyche suddenly feels a pang of regret for Walmart, you know you’re in trouble and that something has gone awry in the world. Walmart was an easy target. They were everywhere. Amazon is everywhere and nowhere at the same time, but …
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Redefining Employment Status Is Just Exploitation by Another Name
New Orleans Tech lobbyists, led by Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are now spending almost as much as the automobile industry on Washington, DC lobbyists. That’s not good news for the rest of us. A lot of the lobbying, according to recent reports, at both the federal, state, and local level is from Uber and the …
Tech Companies are Lying on Privacy
San Francisco In the wake of the disclosures that the National Security Administration has been amassing data from tech companies and telecommunications outfits on personal, domestic internet activity and phone calls, the companies seem to be doing a lot of dissembling and lawyerly lying about what they are doing and not doing, even though it …