Susan Berfield reports: In the autumn of 2012, when Walmart first heard about the possibility of a strike on Black Friday, executives mobilized with the efficiency that had built a retail empire. Walmart has a system for almost everything: When there’s an emergency or a big event, it creates a Delta team. The one formed…
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UAE: Acquittal of government officials for privacy breach overturned
Haneen Dajani reports: Three government officials who installed CCTV cameras in a women’s customer service centre will once again appear in court after their acquittal was overturned by the appeals court. Tuesday’s ruling upheld the first verdict issued in the case by the Court of Misdemeanor, which found the trio guilty of breaching employees’ privacy….
Massachusetts Senate passes public education, social media privacy legislation
Wicked Local reports: The Massachusetts Senate passed a variety of pieces of legislation covering veterans, public education and social media privacy. […] S.2034: An Act Relative to Social Media Privacy Protection, prohibits any public or private institution providing elementary, secondary or higher education from requiring a student or applicant to disclose a username, password or…
Apple defeats U.S. class action lawsuit over bag searches
Dan Levine reports: Apple Inc defeated a U.S. class action lawsuit brought by Apple retail workers over bag search practices at the company’s California brick and mortar outlets, according to a court ruling on Saturday. The decision, from U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco, came in a case where employees sued to be…