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IBM executives called older workers ‘dinobabies’ who should be ‘extinct’

In a discriminating narrative an IBM executive aims to get rid of employees of a certain age to be replaced with younger new hires. source: https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-execs-called-older-workers-dinobabies-in-age-discrimination-lawsuit-2022-2 archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2022/02/13/ibm-executives-called-older-workers-dinobabies-who-should-be-extinct-archived-source/
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Apple Practice of Changing Former Employee Titles

It got known about a practice by the tech giant Apple to change the title of former employees to “associate” in an aim to lower their chances on the job market e.g. to be hired by possible competitors. source: https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/apple-practice-of-changing-former-employee-titles-to-associate-spurs-complaint/#disqus_thread archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2022/02/11/apple-practice-of-changing-former-employee-titles-archived-source/
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China targets Taiwanese Financial Institutions

It was found that a hacker group initiated by the Chinese regime attacked financial institutions in Taiwan, showing the regime does not shy away from any illegal action to get a foothold on foreign countries. source: https://thehackernews.com/2022/02/chinese-hackers-target-taiwanese.html archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2022/02/06/china-targets-taiwanese-financial-institutions-archived-source/
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China censors end of movie Fight Club

The movie Fight Club was altered for Chinese viewers in a way that the ending does not show the destruction of a series of buildings but instead displaying a message that the characters have been apprehended by the police. This almost comical alteration shows the deep fear by the Chinese regime about anything that could […]
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Google deceived consumers about how it profits from their location data

Google is called out in a lawsuit about the practices it used to profit from collecting end user location data over the span of years while deceiving about it. source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-deceived-consumers-about-how-it-profits-from-their-location-data-attorneys-general-allege-in-lawsuits/ar-AAT5ADk archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2022/01/24/google-deceived-consumers-about-how-it-profits-from-their-location-data-archived-source/
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Taiwan’s NCC finds censorship software in Xiaomi smartphones

An analysis of Xiaomi smartphones revealed software installed on the device which aims to censor certain keywords in favor of the Chinese regime. source: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4402842 archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2022/01/08/taiwans-ncc-finds-censorship-software-in-xiaomi-smartphones-archived-source/
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Canada tracked 33 million mobile devices during lockdown

The Canadian Public Health Agency used cell towers to track the movement of millions of citizens with the excuse of a pandemic, violating their privacy. source: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-public-health-agency-admits-it-tracked-33-million-mobile-devices-during-lockdown archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2021/12/24/canada-tracked-33-million-mobile-devices-during-lockdown-archived-source/
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Huawei supplies chinese government with surveillance technolgy

Although the company Huawei claims it does not directly work for the Chinese regime, internal documents show the extensive ways the company supplies the Chinese regime with technology and systems which are mostly used to surveil dissidents in China. source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/huawei-surveillance-china/ archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2021/12/14/huawei-supplies-chinese-government-with-surveillance-technolgy-archived-source/
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Facebook collects data even when accounts are deactivated

Even when a Facebook account is deactivated the company continues to use the account in it’s offline state for further data collection and analysis and ad revenue, ignoring the end user’s privacy. source: https://digiday.com/media/why-facebook-keeps-collecting-peoples-data-and-building-their-profiles-even-when-their-accounts-are-deactivated/ archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2021/10/28/facebook-collects-data-even-when-accounts-are-deactivated-archived-source/
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WhatsApp “end-to-end encrypted” messages aren’t that private after all

Albeit the claim by Facebook about the messages in their WhatsApp messenger service being end-to-encrypted this seems not to be the case, exposing every content send via the service and violating the end user’s privacy. source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/whatsapp-end-to-end-encrypted-messages-arent-that-private-after-all/ archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2021/09/08/whatsapp-end-to-end-encrypted-messages-arent-that-private-after-all-archived-source/
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