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Birds of a feather 🦩- Flock has a stalking problem, Drama at Canada’s only unionized Amazon facility.

Episode 1056 Published 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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Surveillance tech company Flock is adding new guardrails after reports that police officers used its licence-plate tracking system to stalk women, raising fresh concerns about how AI-powered camera networks can be abused as the company’s technology eyes a potential move into Canada.

Plus, Amazon is asking B.C.’s labour board to pause bargaining with Unifor at its only unionized Canadian warehouse, as a group of workers pushes to decertify the union and potentially derail a hard-fought organizing win.

And in The Big Picture: Anthropic’s expected IPO could value it at US$2 trillion, Canada and the U.S. race toward a trade deal, Ontario proposes new data-centre power rules, and the world’s largest electric plane completes its first flight.

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