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FT: Alphabet Shareholders Campaign for Improved Human Rights Policies
February 25, 2020
According to Financial Times, Alphabet has failed to quell a revolt from shareholders over its human rights policies in the latest investor campaign targeting the harmful effects posed by large technology companies.
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U.S. Charges Chinese Military Hackers with Massive Equifax Breach
February 11, 2020
U.S. federal prosecutors have charged four members of China’s People’s Liberation Army for hacking the credit-reporting giant Equifax.
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Cassel Compiles Top Ten Global Business and Human Rights Developments
February 11, 2020
King & Spalding counsel Douglass Cassel has examined the top global trends in business and human rights cases in 2019.
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Microsoft CEO Promotes “Data Dignity”
January 29, 2020
According to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, “data, and privacy around data, is a human right that has to be protected” in a transparent manner, calling on businesses to place greater weight on what he called “data dignity.”
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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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