By Saraya Roberts This post is about an article written by Geoffrey Fowler and Tatum Hunter on September 23rd, 2021, for The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/23/iphone-tracking/ Have you ever gotten a message asking you for your permission to share your data and information with an app on your phone? According to ...
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Claire Pascocello April 14, 2021 The National Labor Relations Board has determined that Amazon illegally retaliated against two of its employees last year by firing them for publicly speaking out against the company. The employees, Emily Cunnigham and Maren Costa, happened to be two of Amazon’s most prominent internal ...
Read More »CANCELLED: The World Bank Ends its “Doing Business” Report
Imagine that there was a nation-wide ranking system for high school seniors which used a publicized equation to compile various factors (test scores, awards, extracurriculars, essays, etc.) instead of the applications we are used to now when you were applying for college. Go one step further, you know someone in ...
Read More »Drug companies seek billion-dollar tax deductions from opioid settlement
Claire Pascocello Feb 12, 2021 The opioid epidemic kills tens of thousands of Americans each year. Four companies, Johnson & Johnson, McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health, have agreed to pay $26 billion to settle claims that they helped to push highly addictive pills to the public and especially towards those ...
Read More »Sustainability Projects From the Oil Industry
According to the International Energy Agency, it would be almost impossible for the world to reach its climate targets without finding a way to capture and store carbon emissions. However, bp oil industry is leading the charge with other European energy companies to begin carbon capture projects within the UK. ...
Read More »Ransomware Attacks Threaten Patient Privacy
By Rebecca Joseph “Ransomware Attack Hits Universal Health Services” from The Wall Street Journal” https://www.wsj.com/articles/ransomware-attack-hits-universal-health-services-11601341873 September 28, 2020 On Sunday, September 27, Universal Health Services Inc. (UHS) fell victim to a ransomware attack. UHS is one of the largest hospital networks in the nation. They had to shut off computer ...
Read More »Amazon’s New COVID Friendly Payment Method
From “Amazon’s New Payment System Lets You Pay With Your Palms” How Does ‘Amazon One’ Work? Is it safe?” Published on September 29, 2020 Today we are living in a world full of fear, simple concepts such as paying for your groceries has become concerning especially for those at risk ...
Read More »How Coronavirus Will Change The Aviation Industry and the Way We Fly
How do we think the aviation will change when emerging from the fall-out of the COVID-19 pandmendic? In an article written by Bloomberg, they addressed this question. There will most definitely be a seismic shift in the world’s airlines to re-evaluate how they operate and how things will look post ...
Read More »Effects of COVID-19 on ICT Retail Industry
New’s Talk Effects of COVID-19 on ICT IndustryDownload Imagine this, with the current efforts to curb COVID-19, and you are locked in an isolation room, away from everyone, and with no permission to leave the room whatsoever. In there, you have no access to any electronic device. No access to ...
Read More »How COVID-19 is Impacting the Fashion and Apparel sector and how they Are Responding to the Pandemic
New’s Talks COVID-19 Impact on the Fashion and Apparel IndustryDownload Considering that Covid-19 has had unprecedented pressure on many business sectors, the fashion and apparel industry is also enduring a huge effect amid the global health crisis. Major apparel brands and retailers are canceling their orders as the pandemic coerce ...
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