Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement With protests over the police killing of George Floyd gripping the country, Microsoft’s president the company would refrain from selling facial recognition software to police, a small victory for employees who the company sever relationships with law enforcement agencies. At Microsoft-owned GitHub, the parent company’s concession only served to reinvigorate internal opposition to a controversial contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.At the start of an all-staff Q&A session Thursday morning, GitHub’s chief...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement With protests over the police killing of George Floyd gripping the country, Microsoft’s president the company would refrain from selling facial recognition software to police, a small victory for employees who the company sever relationships with law enforcement agencies. At Microsoft-owned GitHub, the parent company’s concession only served to reinvigorate internal opposition to a controversial contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.At the start of an all-staff Q&A session Thursday morning, GitHub’s chief...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A coalition of about 50 labor groups is asking congressional leaders to reject Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi’s proposal for a new legal category that would allow the company to keep treating its workers as independent contractors while affording them partial employee benefits. In a letter sent Wednesday, the organizations — which include the National Employment Law Project, AFL-CIO, Legal Aid Society, Rideshare Drivers United and Gig Workers Rising — argue these workers have been misclassified as contractors and the...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A coalition of about 50 labor groups is asking congressional leaders to reject Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi’s proposal for a new legal category that would allow the company to keep treating its workers as independent contractors while affording them partial employee benefits. In a letter sent Wednesday, the organizations — which include the National Employment Law Project, AFL-CIO, Legal Aid Society, Rideshare Drivers United and Gig Workers Rising — argue these workers have been misclassified as contractors and the...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Breaking News Advertisement In the days following the Jan. 6 riot at the nation’s Capitol, there was a rush to identify those who had stormed the building’s hallowed halls.Instagram accounts with names like Homegrown Terrorists popped up, claiming to use artificial intelligence software and neural networks to trawl publicly available images in order to identify rioters. Cybersecurity expert John Scott-Railton and other researchers they deployed facial recognition software to detect trespassers, including a retired Air Force lieutenant allegedly...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Breaking News Advertisement In the days following the Jan. 6 riot at the nation’s Capitol, there was a rush to identify those who had stormed the building’s hallowed halls.Instagram accounts with names like Homegrown Terrorists popped up, claiming to use artificial intelligence software and neural networks to trawl publicly available images in order to identify rioters. Cybersecurity expert John Scott-Railton and other researchers they deployed facial recognition software to detect trespassers, including a retired Air Force lieutenant allegedly...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In a sweeping condemnation of the world’s biggest social network and the power it has amassed, federal regulators sued Facebook Inc. and are seeking to break the company — which includes Instagram and WhatsApp — into pieces. Groundbreaking antitrust lawsuits announced Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission and four dozen states and districts accuse Facebook of engaging in monopolistic practices to snuff out rivals and stifle competition. If the suits are successful, Facebook could be forced to divest its photo-sharing app...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In a sweeping condemnation of the world’s biggest social network and the power it has amassed, federal regulators sued Facebook Inc. and are seeking to break the company — which includes Instagram and WhatsApp — into pieces. Groundbreaking antitrust lawsuits announced Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission and four dozen states and districts accuse Facebook of engaging in monopolistic practices to snuff out rivals and stifle competition. If the suits are successful, Facebook could be forced to divest its photo-sharing app...WW…