This week in “Amazon is scum” news, on Tuesday the company reached a $61.7 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over a longstanding practice of stealing tips from delivery drivers. Drivers for Amazon Flex were recruited with the promise of $18 to $25 an hour plus customer tips, and that’s how it worked in 2015 and 2016. But then …
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The FTC on Wednesday officially unveiled its $5 billion data privacy settlement with Facebook — adding to the outrage of Democratic lawmakers and regulators who called the provisions far too mild to hold the social media giant accountable or deter future misdeeds. In addition to the fine — by far the largest privacy-related settlement the …
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Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
