Stakeholder Capitalism

Right Aid uses Facial Recognition Technology in Hundreds of its Stores Nationwide

July 29, 2020

Reuters: Rite Aid installed facial recognition technology over the last eight years from a company with links to China's authoritarian government in over 200 stores nationwide, mainly in metro New York and L.A.
BBC: New Wearable Tracking Device Sparks Fear of Surveillance State in Singapore

July 07, 2020

According to BBC, fears of a surveillance state are being expressed, as the Singapore government develops a wearable device to complement the island's existing contact-tracing app to identify people who might have been infected by those who have tested positive for the Coronavirus.
Facebook, Social Media Under Pressure from Brands to Address Hate Speech

July 01, 2020

Big retailers, including Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Hershey, Honda, Eddie Bauer, The North Face, Levi's, Ben & Jerry's, and Verizon, are withholding advertising to pressure Facebook and other social media platforms to better monitor online hate speech.
WastedLocker: Symantec Identifies Wave of Attacks Against U.S. Organizations

June 26, 2020

Symantec, a division of Broadcom, has identified a string of attacks against dozens of U.S. corporations, including eight Fortune 500 companies, by attackers attempting to deploy the WastedLocker ransomware on their networks.
Apple: iOS Update Will Warn Users about Location Tracking and Data Collection

June 24, 2020

Apple announced that the next version of iPhone software, iOS 14, will include new privacy features that show an itemized list of data that user apps are gathering, including location.
Alan Raul in The Hill: Who's Balancing Privacy Against Public Health and Everything Else?

June 14, 2020

In a recent article in The Hill, Alan Raul suggests that, in order to establish thoughtful and effective policy on privacy and data protection, the administration should set up a digital privacy bureau within the Executive Office of the President with a clear leader on the issue.
Kadomtsev: Have Social Media Companies Become the New "Arbiters of Truth"?

June 10, 2020

Writing in Modern Diplomacy, Andrei Kadomtsev opines that, as, during the COVID-19 pandemic, multinational media platforms, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, exhibited the capacity to check the spread of false information, fake news, and panic rumors, politicians, policymakers and activists are now calling for these companies to aggressively fight against other "content harmful to society."
Barrons: McDonald’s Target of Sexual-Harassment Complaints by Labor Unions to OECD

May 20, 2020

On the eve of McDonald’s annual meeting, an international group of labor unions filed a complaint with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that details alleged failures by the fast-food giant’s global management to address “rampant” sexual harassment at restaurants in the U.S. and other countries.
McKinsey & Company Provides Insights on COVID-19 Implications

April 01, 2020

McKinsey & Company is providing updates regarding the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, including an article intended to provide business leaders with a perspective on the evolving situation and implications for their companies.
Walle: Companies Need to Address Data Ethics as Well as Data Privacy

March 16, 2020

Writing in Forbes, Thomas Walle explains why, beyond the hard legal guidelines relating to data privacy, companies should be equally concerned about data ethics relating to how collected data is used for commercial purposes.