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Gallagher: Spyware Business is Booming
January 29, 2020
The alleged theft of data from the iPhone X used by billionaire Jeff Bezos has cast an unflattering light on software developers specializing in digital surveillance, who offer tools that can be used to covertly infect targeted mobile phones and computers with spyware, which can record calls, harvest text messages, take photographs using the device’s inbuilt camera and record audio using its microphone.
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Davos Attendees Discuss "Stakeholder Capitalism"
January 22, 2020
Business leaders and policy makers attending this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland are considering the implications of transitioning from a classical interpretation of the role of businesses to maximize shareholder value to the role of maximizing the outcomes for a variety of stakeholders, including shareholders, customers, employees, suppliers, and communities.
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BlackRock Signs Climate Change Pact
January 15, 2020
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with more than $6.8 trillion under its control, has become a signatory to Climate Action 100+, joining 370 other global investors in an initiative designed to encourage companies to take action on climate change by becoming carbon neutral by 2050.
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Wagner and Kuklis: EU Needs a Single Institution to Tackle Problem of Online Disinformation
January 08, 2020
Ben Wagner and Lubos Kuklis explain their proposal for the creation of a new single European institution which could act as an auditing intermediary to ensure that the data provided to regulators by social media companies are accurate.
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WEF Publishes Survey Results Relating to Corporate Ethical Cultures
January 08, 2020
The World Economic Forum’s Fourth Industrial Revolution Steering Committee for the Responsible Use of Technology has published the results of a survey it conducted of businesses regarding what factors contribute to positive corporate ethical cultures.
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