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February 22, 2020

Private Whatsapp groups visible in Google searches | News | DW | 21.02.2020
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A DW employee discovered that Google is indexing invite links to WhatsApp group chats. This means with a simple search anyone can discover and join these groups including ones the administrator may want to keep private.

4-Day Workweek's Appeal Goes Global As Bosses Seek To Boost Profits And Morale : NPR
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Companies around the world are embracing what might seem like a radical idea: a four-day workweek.

The concept is gaining ground in places as varied as New Zealand and Russia, and it's making inroads among some American companies. Employers are seeing surprising benefits, including higher sales and profits.

CUPE blocks scabs at landfill, garbage service disrupted in northern New Brunswick – NB Media Co-op
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Garbage trucks were lined up outside a landfill south of Bathurst after a lockout of CUPE workers left nobody inside

Facial recognition company Clearview AI probed by Canada privacy agencies - Reuters
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"Clearview AI bills itself as a tool for law enforcement, scraping the internet for publicly available photos and using facial recognition to identify potential suspects"

Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots | Technology | The Guardian
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Draft of Brown study says findings suggest ‘substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages’

Assange's fate hangs in balance as UK court considers U.S. extradition bid - Reuters
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"Assange made international headlines in 2010 when WikiLeaks published a classified U.S. military video showing a 2007 attack by Apache helicopters in Baghdad that killed a dozen people, including two Reuters news staff."

2014 Bloomberg Hoped the NSA Was “Reading Every Email”
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In October 2014, on a stage in San Francisco in front of a live audience, Katie Couric asked Mike Bloomberg whether he had ever “sexted on Snapchat.” The former New York City mayor, speaking alongside Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit, joked that he “couldn’t answer the question.” But the question prompted Bloomberg to describe his views on data collection, and a personal “Richard Nixon lesson” about record-keeping.