Companies like Deloitte and IBM have made millions building state unemployment websites that didn't work, yet keep getting contracts to fix them
Colin Lecher / The Markup :
A look at the debate about whether Amazon should be held liable for defective 3rd-party products on its Marketplace, which the company argues is like Craigslist
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Profile of Armslist, the “Craigslist of guns” that offers nearly any kind of gun imaginable and where all transactions are done peer to peer
The Verge : Tweets: @momsdemand , @sean_kev , @ma_franks , @geigernews , @giffordscourage , @colinlecher , and @reckless Tweets: @momsdemand : Criminals and others are avoiding background checks by b...
Profile of Armslist, the “Craigslist of guns” that offers nearly any kind of gun imaginable and where all transactions are done peer to peer
Inside Armslist, the online ‘gun show that never ends’ — Thomas Caldwell was a veteran in his 60s with a soft physique, oval glasses … Tweets: @momsdemand , @sean_kev , @ma_franks , @reckless , @gei...
How the Basel Action Network, which embeds trackers in discarded devices to trace where they end up in the world, uncovered bad practices of an e-waste recycler
How an e-waste sting uncovered a shocking betrayal — Jim Puckett got the messages from his “little lie detectors.” Tweets: @russellbrandom and @colinlecher Tweets: Russell Brandom / @russellbrandom ...
Filings show that the US Commerce Department is giving Huawei another reprieve of three months before the US ban takes effect, now slated for February 16, 2020
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Sources: CFIUS has launched a review of ByteDance's 2017 acquisition of Musical.ly, as TikTok didn't seek clearance from CFIUS during the acquisition
Margaret Sullivan was having fun. Washington Post : U.S. government investigating TikTok over national security concerns Hanna Kozlowska / Quartz : TikTok could be the next social platform plagued wit...
66% of Google's eligible contract workers, employed by outsourced IT services provider HCL in Philadelphia, announce their intention to unionize
DarkCyber noted … Colin Lecher / The Verge : Google contractors in Pittsburgh say a majority are unionizing Brandy Betz / Seeking Alpha : Google contractors move to unionize Ethan Miller / Pittsburgh ...
German regulator says Google has agreed to stop listening in and transcribing Google Assistant recordings for three months in Europe
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Leaked documents show how Amazon automatically tracks and terminates warehouse workers for failing to meet productivity quotas
10% of its staff, for not moving fast enough packing hundreds of boxes an hour. Monopoly has its privileges http://www.theverge.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : Here's @colinlecher on the reality of ...