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Added on the 04/11/2019 16:26:00 - Copyright : BANG Showbiz
Since the 19th century, the infamous Pinkerton spy agency has a history of union-busting and involving itself in businesses. Now, Business Insider reports Amazon has turned to Pinkerton to monitor European workers' labor union organizing efforts. Leaked documents from Amazon's Global Security Operations Center revealed analysts have been tracking workers' union organizing activities. A report from Motherboard also disclosed that Amazon data analysts use social media to monitor social justice and environmental activist groups' activities. It's the latest in a string of evidence that highlights Amazon's robust efforts to monitor and crack down on its workers unionizing. Earlier this year, Amazon listed, but quickly removed, a job opening for an analyst that would monitor employee's efforts to organize.
Instagram's boss pushes a rosy view of the app's impact on teens in testimony to US lawmakers that is at odds with damning news reports based on the firm's own research. "Sometimes young people can come to Instagram dealing with difficult things in their lives. I believe that Instagram can help in those critical moments," the app's head Adam Mosseri says before a Senate commerce subcommittee. SOUNDBITE
Kendall Jenner has reassured her fans that she is taking the lockdown of California "very seriously" during the coronavirus pandemic.
Chris Hemsworth has offered up a free trial to his health and fitness platform Centr so fans can keep fit and healthy indoors during the coronavirus pandemic.