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Ford Walks Back DEI Work As Some On the Internet Complain

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The automaker recently told workers that it would modify its DEI initiative to allow all employees, and said that it would end its work with the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index. The external and legal environment related to political and social issues continues to evolve.”

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AI Has Created a Battle Over Web Crawling

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Instead, they’re made up of public data that was created by all of us—anyone who’s ever written a blog post, posted a video, commented on a Reddit thread, or done basically anything else online. Longpre: The tragedy of this is that robots.txt is machine-readable but does not appear to be legally enforceable. Longpre: Exactly.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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You decide, after some months of interacting with the 4evru’s version of your father, that while you are somewhat glad to learn who your father truly was, you’re mourning the loss of the person you thought you knew. Consider that Microsoft has a patent for creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their “social data.”

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Driving Dystopia: Automakers Selling User Data for Pennies, Senators Ask FTC to Get Involved

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A letter to the Federal Trade Commission has revealed that these automakers are not only selling off your personal data, they’re doing it for a pathetically small sum of money. In 2022, a study estimated that Facebook can earn up to $900 per user by selling the personal information of users to other companies. Penned by U.S.

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Driving Dystopia: Eight Automakers Accused of Lying About Customer Data Protections

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While there are actually very few data protections on the federal level as they pertain to corporations, misrepresenting your business is something the FTC would be very interested in. Corporations go back on their word all the time and automakers have been among the worst offenders in recent years.

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Shipt’s Algorithm Squeezed Gig Workers. They Fought Back

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Its corporate photographs present idealized versions of happy Shipt shoppers. Each person who sent in screenshots had a unique ID tied to their phone number, but the only demographic information we collected was the worker’s metro area. In addition to fair pay, workers also want transparency and agency.

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BMW, Ford, Honda to Form New EV Charging Company

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The company is still pending regulatory approvals, as we used to be concerned about corporate monopolies and are bound by tradition to pretend that still happens. ChargeScape will allegedly help “reduce EV customers’ personal carbon footprints” by utilizing electricity stemming from renewables like wind and solar.

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