That’s also when, prosecutors say, the eBay team escalated to in-person surveillance; several of them allegedly flew out to Boston, checked in at the Ritz Carlton, and drove out that night to Natick intent on installing a GPS monitor on the couple’s Rav4. They had practiced, Lelling said Monday, on a similar model in the […]
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BOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Six eBay employees mounted a cyberstalking campaign — including sending boxes of live cockroaches and a Halloween mask of a bloody pig’s face — against a couple who ran an online e-commerce newsletter, according to charges filed by federal prosecutors on Monday. Unhappy with the newsletter’s coverage of eBay, the employees, none
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi addresses a press conference in New Delhi, India, on October 22, 2019. … [+] (Photo by Indraneel Chowdhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Amid concerns about platform-users’ safety in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as criticism of gig platforms’ treatment of their suppliers both generally and lately, the heads
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What are your thoughts on this? "110-year-old greeting card company Hallmark is revamping its business to cut costs and shift more focus to online sales, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday night, just days after competitor Papyrus filed for bankruptcy protection, which critics say is due to social media and text messages replacing
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Mark Zuckerberg didn’t mince words on a call with reporters Monday: “The bottom line here is that elections have changed significantly since 2016, and Facebook has changed too.” It’s true, the days of Zuckerberg arguing that filter bubbles are worse in the real world than on Facebook, and dismissing the notion that social media could
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But that outrage also helped ensure that the video, which had been available on YouTube for more than a year, would be circulated more widely. Trump’s online provocateurs on Monday portrayed the parody video’s viral distribution as a victory — and a reason to create more like it. TheGeekzTeam YouTube channel, where the video is
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“While our positions are carefully considered and deeply held, there is much room for healthy debate and differing opinions,” the company wrote. (Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.) Several presidential candidates have regularly criticized the company for not paying taxes, a claim Amazon disputes. In its policy manifesto, Amazon doesn’t address
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Doug Baldwin, ex-Seattle Seahawks wide receiver. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Seattle Seahawks great Doug Baldwin has left behind the instant gratification and self worth that he associated with being a professional football player. Coming to terms with life and personal value away from his longtime career has been a struggle at times, and one
from the watch-out-mushy-headed-vegans dept Ag-gag laws usually claim to be about protecting farmers from animal activists. But trespass laws already do that quite effectively. In reality, ag-gag laws are mostly about preventing activists from gathering photographic evidence of the poor conditions in which animals are kept on some farms. Techdirt has written a number of
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Blogs are everywhere. Some of them are great and some of them are worthless. With more than a billion different websites and blogs on the internet today, you can see how it’s easy to get lost in the mix, while also understanding how quick and simple it can be to start a blog of your
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