Ryan Mac
The Company That Handles Free Samples At Costco Is Shutting Down Because Of The Coronavirus
Club Demonstration Services employed thousands of people at Costco warehouses across the nation.
Brianna Sacks
Two Tesla Employees Have Tested Positive For COVID-19
The disclosure comes after CEO Elon Musk has repeatedly downplayed the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ryan Mac
SpaceX Childcare Workers Said They Might Have Been Exposed To The Coronavirus. Elon Musk Is Making Them Work Anyways.
Daycare workers serving the children of SpaceX employees are asking the company for more serious measures to combat the novel coronavirus since learning a parent was tested after coming down with symptoms.
Ryan Mac
Elon Musk Incorrectly Tweeted Children Are “Essentially Immune” From The Coronavirus. Twitter Said That’s Okay.
Musk's tweet that children were “essentially immune” from the coronavirus contradicted information from the CDC and scientific research.
Ryan Mac
Tesla Said It Is Pausing Operations At Two Factories Because Of The Coronavirus
The announcement comes after Tesla defied a shelter-in-place order issued by Alameda County that requires residents to stay at home and nonessential businesses to close.
Ryan Mac
Tesla's Factory Can Stay Open But Manufacturing Cars Would Break The Law, A Sheriff's Office Said
Tesla’s Fremont factory will reduce its workforce from 10,000 to 2,500 workers, according to a spokesperson with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.
Ryan Mac
Apple Just Closed All Its Stores Outside Of Its "Greater China" Region
Hourly Apple retail workers will continue to be paid at a "business as usual operations" rate, the company said.
Ryan Mac
Elon Musk Told Workers They're More Likely To Die In A Car Crash Than From Coronavirus
“The risk of death from C19 is *vastly* less than the risk of death from driving your car home.”
Ryan Mac
Secret Users Of Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Dragnet Included A Former Trump Staffer, A Troll, And Conservative Think Tanks
CEO Hoan Ton-That said his facial recognition app is strictly for law enforcement. But he’s shared it with political connections, potential investors, and entities designated as “Friend.”
Ryan Mac
An Employee At Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan’s Charitable Organization Has Tested Positive For Coronavirus
All other employees at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative have been asked to work from home.
Ryan Mac
Senators Are Probing Clearview AI On The Use Of Facial Recognition By Gulf States And International Markets
Following reporting from BuzzFeed News, Sen. Ed Markey slammed Clearview for its “unacceptable” responses to a prior letter and asked how its facial recognition technology might lead foreign governments to “suppress their citizens.”
Ryan Mac
Twitter Employees Show Support For Embattled CEO With #WeBackJack Hashtag
After activist investor firm Elliott Management announces it has amassed about $1 billion in shares of Twitter, employees have started to sound off.
Ryan Mac
The Facial Recognition Company That Scraped Facebook And Instagram Photos Is Developing Surveillance Cameras
Clearview AI is operating a sister entity called Insight Camera that’s been experimenting with live facial recognition, according to documents seen by BuzzFeed News and companies that have used it.
Caroline Haskins
Clearview AI Created Accounts For The Offices Of Four Republican Lawmakers Including Trump’s Nominee For Director Of National Intelligence
The office for Rep. John Ratcliffe had access to use Clearview AI’s facial recognition, but never logged in or ran searches.
Caroline Haskins
Apple Just Disabled Clearview AI's iPhone App For Breaking Its Rules On Distribution
A BuzzFeed News analysis of Clearview AI’s app for Apple’s mobile operating system found that the company had been violating the iPhone maker’s rules to distribute its apps to law enforcement agencies and other customers.
Logan McDonald
More Than A Dozen Organizations From The Met Police To J.K. Rowling’s Foundation Have Tried Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Tech
Exclusive: The UK National Crime Agency and a number of police forces across England, as well as several private investment firms, have registered users with facial recognition software company Clearview AI.
Emily Ashton
Clearview’s Facial Recognition App Has Been Used By The Justice Department, ICE, Macy’s, Walmart, And The NBA
A BuzzFeed News review of Clearview AI documents has revealed the company is working with more than 2,200 law enforcement agencies, companies, and individuals around the world.
Ryan Mac
Jeff Bezos, The World’s Richest Man, Pledges $10 Billion To Fight Climate Change
“I’m committing $10 billion to start and will begin issuing grants this summer. Earth is the one thing we all have in common — let’s protect it, together.”
Ryan Mac
After Months Of Scandal And Scrutiny On Its Founder, Andy Rubin’s Essential Is Shutting Down
The company's shutdown leaves 114 people, including Andy Rubin, out of jobs.
Ryan Mac
The ACLU Slammed A Facial Recognition Company That Scrapes Photos From Instagram And Facebook
”The report is absurd on many levels and further demonstrates that Clearview simply does not understand the harms of its technology in law enforcement hands.”
Caroline Haskins
