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Amazon snoops on workers, badgeless ‘cops’ arrest protesters

Posted on June 11, 2020June 11, 2020By Editor

Coronavirus has completely warped modern career landscapes, and large corporations like Amazon are jumping at the opportunity to implement stricter surveillance and union-busting tactics during this transitional period. … Read More >Amazon snoops on workers, badgeless ‘cops’ arrest protesters

EU

EU mulls slapping US Big Tech with digital tax to help finance economic recovery from Covid-19

Posted on May 27, 2020May 27, 2020By Editor

Tech giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon could be forced to pay higher taxes in Europe as governments search for new revenue to deal with the Covid-19 crisis, CNBC has reported, citing its sources. … Read More >EU mulls slapping US Big Tech with digital tax to help finance economic recovery from Covid-19

US tech giants still doing business with blacklisted Chinese companies, research firm claims

Posted on May 24, 2020May 24, 2020By Editor

American behemoths such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft are providing web services to Chinese companies included in the infamous US Entity List, according to UK-based tech research firm Top10VPN. … Read More >US tech giants still doing business with blacklisted Chinese companies, research firm claims

US billionaire wealth skyrockets to over $3 TRILLION during pandemic

Posted on May 23, 2020May 23, 2020By Editor

Over the last two months unemployment in the United States has risen to levels not seen since the Great Depression. However, US billionaires got even richer during the same period of coronavirus pandemic. … Read More >US billionaire wealth skyrockets to over $3 TRILLION during pandemic

USA

Bezos ordered to testify in Congress, as Amazon accused of ‘possibly criminally false’ statements on business practices

Posted on May 2, 2020May 2, 2020By Editor

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been ordered to testify before Congress by the House Judiciary Committee, which has accused the corporation of lying about its private labeling practices to cover up possible antitrust violations. … Read More >Bezos ordered to testify in Congress, as Amazon accused of ‘possibly criminally false’ statements on business practices

World

Amazon, Google, and Apple have moved past monopoly status to competing directly with governments… and winning

Posted on April 28, 2020April 28, 2020By Editor

US Senator Josh Hawley is demanding a criminal antitrust probe of Amazon as the e-commerce behemoth’s powers grow to rival the government’s own. Google and Apple, too, are now ordering governments around. … Read More >Amazon, Google, and Apple have moved past monopoly status to competing directly with governments… and winning

USA

Union-busting Psychopath Bezos Wealth SKYROCKETS by $24 Billion as 17 Million Americans Lose Their Jobs

Posted on April 26, 2020April 26, 2020By Editor

Zero-hedge reports: As the middle class gears up to once again unknowingly bail out the world via way of inflating the money supply, the rich are doing what they do during bailouts: getting richer. … Read More >Union-busting Psychopath Bezos Wealth SKYROCKETS by $24 Billion as 17 Million Americans Lose Their Jobs

EU

Amazon will be fined €100,000 for EVERY ‘non-essential’ delivery in France after court rejects appeal in worker safety dispute

Posted on April 24, 2020April 24, 2020By Editor

Amazon will face a fine each time it delivers non-essential goods in France until it improves the safety conditions of its workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The company earlier closed its warehouses in protest. … Read More >Amazon will be fined €100,000 for EVERY ‘non-essential’ delivery in France after court rejects appeal in worker safety dispute

USA

Coronavirus inspires DYSTOPIAN new AI social-distancing enforcement tool (VIDEO)

Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020By Editor

An AI start-up company has developed a video surveillance system that can tell if we’re abiding by social distancing rules. It’s the latest example of the pandemic inspiring what some might view as sinister technology. … Read More >Coronavirus inspires DYSTOPIAN new AI social-distancing enforcement tool (VIDEO)

EU

Amazon threatens to shut down all warehouses in France amid Covid-19 after court ruled it violated workers’ safety rights

Posted on April 15, 2020November 17, 2020By Editor

Amazon said it may close down its warehouses in France instead of limiting its operations to the delivery of essential goods, after a court ruled that it has failed to protect its workers’ safety. … Read More >Amazon threatens to shut down all warehouses in France amid Covid-19 after court ruled it violated workers’ safety rights