@greene

Former reporter for The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek & Seattle Times, among others. Author, Design Is How It Works.

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New: Did you know your name, address, SSN and other details from your phone, water, cable, power and utility bills were being sold for use by government agencies, private investigators and the police? That's changing. A data industry "out of control": wapo.st/3dsW07s

Utility giants agree to no longer allow sensitive records to be shared with ICE

The information was passed to Equifax, which sold it to ICE and other police agencies.

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Today on #PostReports, I'm honored to have the story of the debate over one warehouse in one Southern California suburb – and what it might mean for the many fights just like it happening all over the country. Thread below. washingtonpost.com/podcasts/…
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honored to have reporting from our brilliant former intern @koritsuzuki on the podcast tonight! thank you to @greene for your help with this important environmental justice story. washingtonpost.com/podcasts/…
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New: When the FBI seizes your messages from Big Tech, you may not know it for years wapo.st/3CJctPo @greene

When the FBI seizes your messages from Big Tech, you may not know it for years

Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to enact new rules to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private messages, photos, search history and more.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill requiring Amazon and other employers to disclose the use of productivity quotas and more, coming into effect on Jan. 1 (@greene / Washington Post) washingtonpost.com/technolog… techmeme.com/210923/p7#a2109…
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Square had a software glitch this weekend, making the screen customers use to tip servers disappear for three hours on Saturday. Restaurant workers lost out on hundreds of dollars in tips washingtonpost.com/technolog…

A Square error affected tipping — costing workers hundreds of dollars on a busy weekend day

A Square software glitch caused workers to lose out on tips this weekend.

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Jeff Bezos pledges $1 billion to protect 30 percent of the Earth’s land and sea wapo.st/2VUS3TI

Jeff Bezos pledges $1 billion to protect 30 percent of the Earth’s land and sea

Bezos’s large donations are transforming climate philanthropy — even as Amazon’s cloud-computing business and shipping operations have a significant carbon footprint.

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Amazon says it has opened an investigation into AWS' culture after a popular internal petition criticized it for discrimination against women and others (@greene / Washington Post) washingtonpost.com/technolog… techmeme.com/210723/p14#a210…

Amazon opens discrimination investigation after internal petition wins backing of hundreds of...

Amazon's new chief executive agrees to probe after workers complain in a petition about "an underlying culture of systemic discrimination, harassment, bullying and bias."

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I wrote about the hat. washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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New: Our giant global investigation into the private Israeli spyware used to hack the phones of journalists and activists around the world. Reported with #PegasusProject across 10 countries. And there are so many stories to tell: washingtonpost.com/investiga…

Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide

Military-grade spyware licensed by an Israeli firm to governments for tracking terrorists and criminals was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, human...

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🔥🔥 Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware From @craigtimberg, @ReedAlbergotti & @ElodieGueguen wapo.st/3iqXUrd
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What’s next for Windows? Trying to win back some of the market share it’s lost in the last few years to Chrome OS. Windows dropped from 80% in 2020 to 75% in Q1 of 2021. I'm following today’s #MicrosoftEvent along with my new @washingtonpost tech colleague @Tatum_Hunter_
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Amazon warehouse workers suffer serious injuries at higher rates than other firms @greene @chrisalcantara washingtonpost.com/technolog…

Amazon warehouse workers suffer serious injuries at higher rates than other firms

New data that Amazon reports to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration shows injury rates that are nearly double those at warehouses run by other companies.

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Analysis of OSHA data by @washingtonpost shows Amazon’s serious injury rates are nearly double those at warehouses run by other companies. washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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As Amazon expands, it's laser-focused on improving just about every key business metric — except, apparently, worker injuries Brilliant data work by @chrisalcantara and @greene washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Bar chart showing serious injury rates at Amazon warehouses are about double those at non-Amazon warehouses in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.

ALT Bar chart showing serious injury rates at Amazon warehouses are about double those at non-Amazon warehouses in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Waffle chart showing both the profusion of Amazon warehouses (from 174 in 2017 to 638 in 2020) and the extremely high serious-injury rates (363 Amazon warehouses in 2020 had double the industry-average serious injury rate and only 138 had a below-average rate).

ALT Waffle chart showing both the profusion of Amazon warehouses (from 174 in 2017 to 638 in 2020) and the extremely high serious-injury rates (363 Amazon warehouses in 2020 had double the industry-average serious injury rate and only 138 had a below-average rate).

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New: Amazon is extending its facial recognition police ban until further notice. They paused police Rekognition use for a year last June; now, the company says it's on ice indefinitely wapo.st/2SZgY6W

Amazon extends ban on police use of its facial recognition technology indefinitely

The tech giant said in June its freeze would last a year to "give Congress enough time to implement appropriate rules." No federal laws have been passed since.

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I wrote about people turning to crowdfunding, often as a last resort, to pay for basic expenses during the pandemic. It sometimes is a life-changer, but experts and campaign starters agree it is not a sustainable way to pay bills washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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Union that lost its bid to represent Amazon workers in AL files objections with NLRB, claiming the company improperly pressured workers to oppose unionization (@greene / Washington Post) washingtonpost.com/technolog… techmeme.com/210419/p11#a210…

Union alleges Amazon pressured workers as it seeks to set aside warehouse vote

The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union accused Amazon of intimidating staff to persuade them to reject unionization at an Alabama warehouse.

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There's been three reported cases of false arrests in the U.S. after bad facial recognition searches. All three were Black men. How many cases out there don't we know about? The racial bias of these algorithms is well known: wapo.st/2tCGkuN bit.ly/2JQrrNb

Federal study confirms racial bias of many facial-recognition systems, casts doubt on their...

Researchers found that most facial-recognition algorithms exhibit “demographic differentials” that can worsen their accuracy based on a person’s age, gender or race.

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“Amazon is not perfect, there are flaws, but we are committed to correcting those flaws," said Will Stokes, a warehouse worker
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