Uber and Postmates File Complaint Against CA's Assembly Bill 5
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| Uber and Postmates File Complaint Against CA's Assembly Bill 5 | |
| Number | 1035 |
| Broadcast Date | DECEMBER 31, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 4:18 |
| Hosts | Sarah Lane |
YouTube creators say FTC’s child privacy rules will hurt them, Amazon opens a homeless shelter on its Seattle campus, developers say iOS 13 location settings will stifle adoption.
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- Postmates and Uber filed a complaint against Assembly Bill 5 in California federal district court. The companies argue that AB-5 violates several clauses in the U.S. and California constitutions, such as equal protection, because of how it classifies gig workers for ridesharing and on-demand delivery companies, without the exemptions it grants to workers who do “substantively identical work” in more than 20 other industries. AB-5 is due to go into effect tomorrow, January 1st. The companies, along with two "gig worker" co-plaintiffs, are seeking a preliminary injunction while the lawsuit is under consideration.
- Microsoft says it took down 50 web domains being used by a North Korean government-backed hacking group known as Thallium, or APT37, to launch cyberattacks through phishing emails and webpages. Microsoft says its Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) and the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) teams were monitoring Thallium for months before filing a lawsuit on December 18th against Thallium in a Virginia court.
- In response to the Federal Trade Commission's allegations that YouTube has been violating the 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act by tracking children’s data, the company plans to turn off comments, limit data collection on kid-targeted videos, and stop showing personalized ads on videos when parent company Google knows that the viewer is underage. In response to YouTube, some 175,000 content creators have sent feedback to the FTC, demanding that the agency rethink its strategy, which they say unfairly cuts them off from revenue.
- Amazon is opening a homeless shelter within its Seattle, WA campus, operated by Mary's Place, a nonprofit that provides shelter for homeless residents in Seattle, and was previously operating a shelter out of a Travelodge hotel on Amazon's campus since 2016. The new shelter will have the capacity to serve 275 people each night, and expected to be the largest family shelter in Washington state.
- Apple's iOS 13 no longer allows apps to present an "always allow" option when requesting access to a user's location, a user must now do that themselves in iOS settings. OS 13 also periodically reminds users that apps are tracking their location, and prompts to continue to "always allow" ongoing access to their location or to limit access to while the app is being used. The Wall Street Journal reports that some developers say the location tracking reminders will hurt adoption of their apps, and that for users, reminders are appearing every few days even after the user repeatedly selects "always allow." In response, Apple said the changes were made to safeguard user privacy. Location data collected by apps running in the background has dropped by 70 percent since iOS 13 was released, according to data intelligence company Location Sciences.
- The Wall Street Journal reports that the “Cloud Hopper” Chinese government-sponsored hacking campaign that was first reported by Reuters in June, is worse than originally thought, and that “at least a dozen cloud providers” were affected. The Journal says in particular, HP didn’t see the hackers re-enter their clients’ networks, even as the company gave customers the all-clear. Other breached cloud providers include Rio Tinto, Philips, American Airlines, Deutsche Bank, Allianz, and GlaxoSmithKline.
- Huawei's Rotating Chairman Eric Xu says the company's full-year revenue will likely jump 18% in 2019 to 850 billion yuan ($121.72 billion), and that's lower than its earlier projections, due to its U.S. trade blacklisting back in May. Xu shared these numbers in a New Year’s message to employees and customers, adding that 2020 would be a “difficult year’, where Huawei was unlikely to grow at the rate it did the first half of 2019. The company didn't share full fourth-quarter figures but according to calculations by Reuters, revenue in the latest quarter rose to 239.2 billion yuan ($23.28 billion), up 3.9% over the previous year and slower than the 27% increase it reported in the third quarter.
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