Inside the Whale: An Interview with an Anonymous Amazonian
Amazon is on a mission to own the infrastructure of our lives. The second-largest private employer in the United States after Walmart, the company captures $4 out of every $10 spent online. They have a vast network of fulfillment centers, and they are rapidly buying more real estate; in September 2020, they announced plans to open 1,500 more distribution hubs in suburbs across the country. Retail is only one of their many businesses, however: for many Americans, it would be impossible to commute from home to school or the office without passing into view of a Ring, Amazon’s “smart” home surveillance camera. Moreover, Amazon Web Services (AWS) controls nearly half of the public cloud market, and the company is pouring money into a number of other ventures, from entertainment to advertising. We talked with an AWS cybersecurity engineer about how to think about the behemoth and how it feels to work inside it.
Monday, December 21, 2020
The Biden Plan for Strengthening Worker Organizing Collective Bargaining and Unions specifically endorses several California employment laws as models for the whole country. Accordingly, the many new employment laws set to take effect in California in 2021 (and a few that have already taken effect) may very well be a taste of what’s to come for employers everywhere. Therefore, companies that operate in California, and even those that don’t, should become familiar with new laws going into effect in the Golden State. We have prepared a summary of these laws here:
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The California attorney general released a fourth set of proposed modifications to the California Consumer Privacy Act regulations; notable regulatory changes include a new opt-out button for websites and an offline notice of the right to opt out.
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fourth set of proposed modifications to the regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) on December 10, 2020. The attorney general’s office issued this latest proposed modifications in response to comments received in response to the
third set of draft modifications released on October 12, 2020. Because the third set of proposed modifications was never finalized by the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL), the California attorney general issued the fourth set of proposed modifications to address stakeholder comments and better conform the proposed regulations to the CCPA. The proposed modifications a
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