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Database could be used to regulate opponents, from ‘shutting off bank accounts’ to healthcare, official warns
Donald Trump is attempting to select his own citizenry and control who can vote by gathering the personal details of all Americans, Arizona’s top election official has warned.
Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state, fears that the Trump administration’s active efforts to forcibly extract voter files from 30 states including Fontes’s own are part of a bigger plan to gather vital information on all US citizens into a centralised database. “Trump is trying to amass a master list that will allow him to declare someone an enemy of the state,” he said.
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© Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
© Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
Exclusive: Resistance to equity, diversion and inclusion drives affects hiring chances of people with convictions, says charity
More than a third of HR decision-makers in the UK said they have faced pushback against equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) initiatives over the past year, according to new research.
The new YouGov poll, carried out for the national employment charity Working Chance, surveyed 565 HR decision-makers and found that resistance towards EDI was on the rise.
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© Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA
© Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA
Exclusive: Union body finds workers describing themselves as ‘gambling’ because wages felt like the outcome of chance rather than work
The practice of using “dynamic pricing” to set pay on gig economy platforms including Uber should be banned because it leaves workers at the mercy of shadowy algorithms with no certainty over their earnings, trade union leaders have urged.
In a report exposing the human cost of the gig economy practice, the Trades Union Congress said pay was becoming decoupled from time, skill or effort. Instead, work had become a speculative practice with the rewards determined by an algorithmic process with little transparency.
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© Photograph: Russell Hart/Alamy
© Photograph: Russell Hart/Alamy
Bangkok — Thailand will remain on the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) Watch List for intellectual property (IP) protection in 2026, according to the annual Special 301 Report released on May 1st (Thailand time). The decision comes even as U.S. officials acknowledged notable progress in Thailand’s enforcement efforts against piracy and counterfeiting. The report places […]
US Keeps Thailand on Watch List For Counterfeit Goods and Online Piracy Despite Enforcement Gains
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