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Employee Says Company Installed Software To Track Remote Work. Here's What Happened Next
The tracker monitored the IT manager's test machine, which was one that was idle most of the day because it wasn't assigned to anyone.
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Microsoft Asked FBI Help Track Palestinian Protests, Some Employees Escaped
For the better part of a year, Microsoft Corp. has failed to quell a small but persistent revolt by employees bent on forcing the company to sever business ties with Israel over its war in Gaza.
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Elon Musk Escalates Legal Feud With Sam Altman, Alleges OpenAI A "Monopolist"
Musk said in the filing that the company "has attempted to starve competitors of AI talent by aggressively recruiting employees with offers of lavish compensation and is on track to spend $1.5 billion on personnel for just 1,500 employees."
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Employee Claims Company Wants To Track Personal Phone, Internet Shocked
The employee claimed that his company demanded employees to download an app which would monitor their personal phone activities.
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Google Sanctioned Again by US Court for Taking Too Long to Comply With Ruling
A US court has sanctioned Google for a second time in recent days, after a judge in a decision unsealed on Wednesday said the Alphabet unit took too long to comply with a ruling last year in a data-privacy class action. The order stems from a class action claiming Google unlawfully tracked its users while they were using the company's Chrome browse...
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Employee Working Remotely Sues Company But Ordered To Pay $2,600 For Time Theft
After tracking software revealed "severe misconduct," a Canadian accountant who had been charged with "time theft" was forced to make restitution to her former employer.
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TikTok Data Used To Track Journalists, Admits China's ByteDance
Employees of Chinese tech giant ByteDance improperly accessed data from social media platform TikTok to track journalists in a bid to identify the source of leaks to the media, the company admitted Friday.
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Uber Probing Hack of Third-Party Vendor After Employee Data, Source Code Leaked
Uber on Monday said it was probing the data breach of a third-party vendor after it was reported that the data of 77,000 employees was leaked along with source code for the Uber and Uber Eats mobile device management platforms. The company's vendor, Teqtivity, said it doesn’t collect or store sensitive information such as bank account details or ...
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Twitter Executives Could Be Held Personally Liable, Face Huge FTC Fines, Former US Officials Say
Twitter employees could be held personally liable in case the company disregarded a federal order to protect user privacy with the launch of new features on the platform, according to former US FTC officials. According to a former official, the US FTC has always had the authority to single out executives who violate orders and hit them with penalti...
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Byju’s Completes $950 Million Aakash Acquisition, Receives $800 Million Funds Raised in March
Byju’s announced on Monday that it had completed payment estimated at $950 million (roughly Rs. XXX crore) for the acquisition of Aakash Educational Services. The edtech firm also revealed that it had received a majority of the $800 million (roughly Rs. XXX crore) it raised in its latest round of funding. The company recently announced it had la...
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Facebook Dashes Hopes of Paycheck Arbitrage With Remote Work Plan
The company, one of Silicon Valley's biggest employers, is giving US staffers who are approved to work remotely until January 1, 2021 to update the company on where they plan to base themselves, at which point their salaries will be adjusted to reflect the local cost of living.
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"Aarogya Setu A Sophisticated Surveillance System": Rahul Gandhi
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday criticised the government over the coronavirus tracking app Aarogya Setu as a "sophisticated surveillance system". The app that was meant for voluntary use when it was launched in early April has been made a must for all private and government employees. If a private firm employee is found without the app on the...
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Facebook Tracks Location of ‘Credible Threats’ to Its Employees: Report
Facebook gathers intelligence from its platform to identify people who threaten the firm or its workers, the social network said.
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Hair-Raising! Japan Bullet Train Staff Made To Sit By Tracks
A Japanese rail company has defended a safety exercise that requires employees to sit beside tracks in tunnels as bullet trains speed by at 300 kilometres (186 miles) an hour.
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Website Flaw Exposes Real-Time Locations of US Cellphones
LocationSmart operates in a little-known business sector that provides data to companies for such uses as tracking employees and texting e-coupons to customers near relevant stores.
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Employee Says Company Installed Software To Track Remote Work. Here's What Happened Next
The tracker monitored the IT manager's test machine, which was one that was idle most of the day because it wasn't assigned to anyone.
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Microsoft Asked FBI Help Track Palestinian Protests, Some Employees Escaped
For the better part of a year, Microsoft Corp. has failed to quell a small but persistent revolt by employees bent on forcing the company to sever business ties with Israel over its war in Gaza.
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Elon Musk Escalates Legal Feud With Sam Altman, Alleges OpenAI A "Monopolist"
Musk said in the filing that the company "has attempted to starve competitors of AI talent by aggressively recruiting employees with offers of lavish compensation and is on track to spend $1.5 billion on personnel for just 1,500 employees."
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Employee Claims Company Wants To Track Personal Phone, Internet Shocked
The employee claimed that his company demanded employees to download an app which would monitor their personal phone activities.
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Google Sanctioned Again by US Court for Taking Too Long to Comply With Ruling
A US court has sanctioned Google for a second time in recent days, after a judge in a decision unsealed on Wednesday said the Alphabet unit took too long to comply with a ruling last year in a data-privacy class action. The order stems from a class action claiming Google unlawfully tracked its users while they were using the company's Chrome browse...
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Employee Working Remotely Sues Company But Ordered To Pay $2,600 For Time Theft
After tracking software revealed "severe misconduct," a Canadian accountant who had been charged with "time theft" was forced to make restitution to her former employer.
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TikTok Data Used To Track Journalists, Admits China's ByteDance
Employees of Chinese tech giant ByteDance improperly accessed data from social media platform TikTok to track journalists in a bid to identify the source of leaks to the media, the company admitted Friday.
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Uber Probing Hack of Third-Party Vendor After Employee Data, Source Code Leaked
Uber on Monday said it was probing the data breach of a third-party vendor after it was reported that the data of 77,000 employees was leaked along with source code for the Uber and Uber Eats mobile device management platforms. The company's vendor, Teqtivity, said it doesn’t collect or store sensitive information such as bank account details or ...
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Twitter Executives Could Be Held Personally Liable, Face Huge FTC Fines, Former US Officials Say
Twitter employees could be held personally liable in case the company disregarded a federal order to protect user privacy with the launch of new features on the platform, according to former US FTC officials. According to a former official, the US FTC has always had the authority to single out executives who violate orders and hit them with penalti...
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Byju’s Completes $950 Million Aakash Acquisition, Receives $800 Million Funds Raised in March
Byju’s announced on Monday that it had completed payment estimated at $950 million (roughly Rs. XXX crore) for the acquisition of Aakash Educational Services. The edtech firm also revealed that it had received a majority of the $800 million (roughly Rs. XXX crore) it raised in its latest round of funding. The company recently announced it had la...
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Facebook Dashes Hopes of Paycheck Arbitrage With Remote Work Plan
The company, one of Silicon Valley's biggest employers, is giving US staffers who are approved to work remotely until January 1, 2021 to update the company on where they plan to base themselves, at which point their salaries will be adjusted to reflect the local cost of living.
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"Aarogya Setu A Sophisticated Surveillance System": Rahul Gandhi
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday criticised the government over the coronavirus tracking app Aarogya Setu as a "sophisticated surveillance system". The app that was meant for voluntary use when it was launched in early April has been made a must for all private and government employees. If a private firm employee is found without the app on the...
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Facebook Tracks Location of ‘Credible Threats’ to Its Employees: Report
Facebook gathers intelligence from its platform to identify people who threaten the firm or its workers, the social network said.
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Hair-Raising! Japan Bullet Train Staff Made To Sit By Tracks
A Japanese rail company has defended a safety exercise that requires employees to sit beside tracks in tunnels as bullet trains speed by at 300 kilometres (186 miles) an hour.
-
Website Flaw Exposes Real-Time Locations of US Cellphones
LocationSmart operates in a little-known business sector that provides data to companies for such uses as tracking employees and texting e-coupons to customers near relevant stores.
