The Federal Trade Commission has slapped prescription drug discount app GoodRx with a $1.5 million fine for the unauthorized disclosure of customers’ identifiable health information with third parties, such as Facebook and Google. This is the first time the agency has taken enforcement action under its Health Breach Notification Rule, which requires vendors of personal health records to notify customers if their data has been breached. While the rule has applied to companies handling health… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google ‘rater’ contract workers rally at Mountain View headquarters to demand higher pay  CBS San Francisco Source link

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Dozens of Google workers from across the country rallied at Google headquarters Wednesday to demand higher wages and benefits from Google’s parent company Alphabet. With the backing of the Alphabet Workers Union, a group of Google contract workers known as “raters” made their voices heard on Google’s main campus calling for fair pay and benefits. “I support the largest revenue stream that Google has, and I don’t have healthcare from my employer, and I don’t have the… Source link

The college all-star games are under way, which means it’s officially draft season. You know what comes with draft season: mock drafts. Here’s a brand spanking new one for you beautiful readers that will lead to some healthy debate with no name-calling. Let’s be real, none of us have a crystal ball. Just trying to play out some scenarios and see what happens. Charles McDonald’s third 2023 NFL mock draft is here. (Amber Matsumoto/Yahoo Sports) The Bears very well might trade this pick,… Source link

Before the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT was unleashed into the world, the novelist Robin Sloan was testing a similar AI writing assistant built by researchers at Google. It didn’t take long for Sloan, author of the bestseller “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore,” to realize that the technology was of little use to him. “A lot of the state-of-the-art AI right now is impressive enough to really raise your expectations and make you think, ‘Wow, I’m dealing with… Source link

Tesla (TSLA) board members testified on Wednesday that Elon Musk’s 2018 Twitter posts about taking the electric-vehicle company private were consistent with what he related to the board about a potential take-private deal. Outside director James Murdoch, son of film and television titan Rupert Murdoch, took the stand among other former or current board members. The testimony is part of the class-action trial brought by company shareholders who contend they traded Tesla shares to their… Source link

Tesla (TSLA) board members testified on Wednesday that Elon Musk’s 2018 Twitter posts about taking the electric-vehicle company private were consistent with what he related to the board about a potential take-private deal. Outside director James Murdoch, son of film and television titan Rupert Murdoch, took the stand among other former or current board members. The testimony is part of the class-action trial brought by company shareholders who contend they traded Tesla shares to their… Source link

A frame of video showing two Huntington Park Police officers pointing their guns at 36-year-old Anthony Lowe Jr., a double amputee, moments before he was shot and killed by police. (via Twitter/Mike Sington) A Los Angeles County police department is facing intense criticism this week after a video surfaced on social media of two officers fatally shooting a double amputee moving away from them. The short video showed the 36-year-old Black man, Anthony Lowe Jr., missing the bottom halves of both… Source link

A frame of video showing two Huntington Park Police officers pointing their guns at 36-year-old Anthony Lowe Jr., a double amputee, moments before he was shot and killed by police. (via Twitter/Mike Sington) A Los Angeles County police department is facing intense criticism this week after a video surfaced on social media of two officers fatally shooting a double amputee moving away from them. The short video showed the 36-year-old Black man, Anthony Lowe Jr., missing the bottom halves of both… Source link

Michelle Curtis has rated Google searches professionally for eight years — training, testing and evaluating the algorithms for the company’s dominant search engine — while making $13.50 an hour. On Jan. 1, Curtis received a raise to $14.50 an hour, which is still lower than the $15 minimum hourly wage that Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +1.61% GOOG, +1.56% has established for its temporary, contractor and vendor workforce,… Source link