Amazon Employees Show Up to City Council Meetings to Demand Limits on Data Centers
… But Amazon Employees for Climate Justice organizers don’t believe workers at any of the companies have advocated by name for regulations on data centers before. …
… But Amazon Employees for Climate Justice organizers don’t believe workers at any of the companies have advocated by name for regulations on data centers before. …
… When employees protested the rollout in internal messages, including by referencing Meta’s history of user data breaches, chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth “belittled and berated” the dissenters, one veteran employee says and another confirms. “These billionaires can’t even feign empathy,” t… …
… Holdout Data Broker Removes Code That Hid Its Opt-Out Page for 3 Years Findem, a major American data broker previously caught hiding its data-deletion page from Google, says it has taken steps to correct the problem after three years. …
… The Cloud Act, which gives US law enforcement the ability to request access to data stored on servers internationally, is often cited as a worry. “We know extraterritorial law can allow some access even if the data is stored in France and it’s not acceptable. …
… The employee who had posted the question then reportedly followed that incorrect advice, leading to a breach of the company’s data protection protocols, exposing “large amounts” of the company’s data to unauthorized users. …
… Occasional or one-time customers in prior years have included Affirm, Cruise, Datadog, and Fanatics. Zoox spokesperson Marisa Wiggam said police protected a large offsite gathering for employees and that it is open to using the program again if a need arises. …
… Ingrasselino, in his lawsuit, said he was “especially concerned by the fact that MSG had no standard operating procedures for the storage and dissemination” of this personally identifiable information “and that MSG employees would often send the information through apps and Signal chats that had nu… …
… It is in part a story of our own choice to share our personal biometric data, and in part a story of the companies that have commercialized that data. It is also a story of government collection, digitization, and centralization of police data. …
… Other startups are focused on data collection and communications. …
… Since 2022, Palantir has also sold another intelligence platform to the US Army called the Army Intelligence Data Platform. The company has said that the AIDP “integrates” data from Maven and at least four other government systems. …