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Activision Blizzard workers walk out, protesting loss of abortion rights - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/07/21/activision-blizzard-roe-walkout

Hundreds of Activision Blizzard employees are walking out Thursday in Texas, California, Minnesota and New York to protest the overturn of Roe v. Wade and demand protections. The current count, as of this writing, is 450 employees, in-person and online.

The demands include a request for all workers to have the right to work remotely, and for workers living in “locations passing discriminatory legislation,” such as antiabortion laws, to be offered relocation assistance to a different state or country. Employees are also demanding the company sign a labor-neutrality agreement to respect the rights of workers to join a union; on Twitter, the workers’ group A Better ABK said the demand was necessitated by union-busting efforts on the part of Activision Blizzard.

ABetterABK 💙 ABK Workers Alliance sur Twitter :
▻https://twitter.com/ABetterABK/status/1544717283087757312

In light of the recent attacks on the civil liberties of our employees, the employee-led Committee Against Sex and Gender Discrimination has scheduled a walk out action on July 21st, 2022 (1/17)

Manifestation chez Activision-Blizzard-King pour l’accès à certains droits.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #activision_blizzard #a_better_abk #ressources_humaines #roe_v_wade #syndicalisme #revendication #droit #avortement #manifestation #travail_à_distance #télétravail #lgbt #assurance_santé #fabby_garza #rich_george #égalité_des_sexes #équité_des_sexes #équité #qa #raven_software #assurance_qualité #kate_anderson #alejandra_beatty #verily #alphabet #google

We’re Google Workers. And We’re Forming a Union
►https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/opinion/google-union.html

Our company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” An organized work force will help us live up to it. On Nov. 1, 2018, at 11:10 a.m., some 20,000 Google employees, along with employees of Waymo, Verily and other Alphabet companies, stopped working and walked off the job in cities around the world. A week earlier, The New York Times reported that the company had paid tens of millions of dollars to two executives who had been accused of sexual misconduct toward our co-workers, staying silent about (...)

#YouTube #Google #Alphabet #Verily #Waymo #racisme #police #sexisme #discrimination #GigEconomy #harcèlement #licenciement #Maven (...)

##travail

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Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism
►https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/technology/google-employees-union.html

The creation of the union, a rarity in Silicon Valley, follows years of increasing outspokenness by Google workers. Executives have struggled to handle the change. OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 225 Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, the group revealed on Monday, capping years of growing activism at one of the world’s largest companies and presenting a rare beachhead for labor organizers in staunchly anti-union Silicon Valley. The union’s creation is highly unusual for the (...)

#Alphabet #Google #Salesforce #Verily #Waymo #Amazon #Pinterest #YouTube #racisme #sexisme #discrimination #GigEconomy #syndicat (...)

##travail

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Des salariés de Google créent un syndicat après des mois de tensions internes
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2021/01/04/google-des-salaries-creent-un-syndicat-apres-des-mois-de-tensions-internes_6

Ce syndicat, un des tout premiers au sein d’un fleuron de la Silicon Valley, ne s’occupera pas que des questions liées aux salaires et conditions de travail mais aussi des problématiques éthiques. En raison de divergences avec leur direction qui se multiplient, des salariés de Google ont annoncé, lundi 4 janvier, créer un syndicat, une décision qui coïncide avec une période de mécontentement grandissant envers les géants de la Silicon Valley. La Silicon Valley était parvenue jusqu’à présent à éviter (...)

#Fitbit #Google #Verily #Waymo #YouTube #éthique #GigEconomy #syndicat #travail (...)

##Maven

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Verily, Google’s health-focused sister company, is getting into insurance
▻https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/25/21401124/alphabet-verily-insurance-coefficient-stop-loss

It’s launching a new subsidiary, Coefficient Verily Life Sciences, the health care company owned by Alphabet, is getting into insurance, the company announced today. Verily is launching a new subsidiary for the effort called Coefficient Insurance Company, which will be backed by the commercial insurance unit of Swiss Re Group. Coefficient plans to offer stop-loss insurance. The explanation for stop-loss is a little technical, but it boils down to this : Employers that pay for employee (...)

#Alphabet #Google #Verily #BigData #santé

##santé

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Alphabet Verily enters stop-loss insurance market
▻https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/25/alphabet-verily-enters-stop-loss-insurance-market.html

Alphabet’s Verily is starting a new subsidiary dedicated to stop-loss insurance. It is taking a minority investment from Swiss Re, a global insurance giant. Verily, which is dedicated to health and technology, has been thinking about the insurance market for years. Verily, the health unit of Google parent Alphabet, is creating a subsidiary to apply technology to a kind of employer-sponsored insurance known as “stop-loss.” The new Coefficient Insurance Co. will be backed by the insurance (...)

#Alphabet #Verily #données #BigData #santé

##santé

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Big Tech Zeros In on the Virus-Testing Market
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/technology/big-tech-google-verily-virus-testing.html

As businesses grapple with how to safely reopen the workplace, companies like Fitbit and Verily, Google’s sister company, are rushing out new work force health-vetting and tracking tools. Verily Life Sciences, a sister company of Google, scrambled to introduce a free coronavirus-screening site for the public and set up testing locations in March after President Trump made an off-the-cuff announcement about the program. It had a rocky start, but has since helped more than 220,000 people get (...)

#Alphabet #Fitbit #Google #Microsoft #UnitedHealthGroup #Verily #algorithme #CCTV #technologisme #température #prédiction #COVID-19 #marketing #santé (...)

##santé ##travail

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Coronoptiques (2/4) : dépister la population, rendre visible le virus | LINC
▻https://linc.cnil.fr/fr/coronoptiques-24-depister-la-population-rendre-visible-le-virus

Identifier les porteurs du virus et comptabiliser les malades sont les premières opérations de surveillance sanitaire nécessaires pour gérer une épidémie. La production de ces données est le fruit d’une longue et fragile chaîne dans laquelle interviennent de nombreux acteurs. « Le virus nous a pris par surprise, en avançant masqué, en se transmettant par des malades légers ou asymptomatiques ». Cette déclaration du médecin infectiologue espagnol José Antonio Perez Molina illustre la nécessité de parvenir (...)

#Alphabet #Google #Megvii #Verily #anonymat #température #BigData #santé #surveillance (...)

##santé ##CNIL

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Les données de santé, un trésor mondialement convoité
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2020/03/02/les-donnees-de-sante-un-tresor-mondialement-convoite_6031572_1650684.html

Ces données, transcendées par l’intelligence artificielle, vont façonner la médecine de demain. Comment sont-elles protégées, partagées, monnayées ? Quelle place pour la France face aux géants du numérique ? Nous sommes tous concernés mais le phénomène est tellement discret qu’il est difficile d’en prendre la pleine mesure. La planète est devenue, en quelques années, une gigantesque chambre d’enregistrement où une multitude d’informations relatives à notre santé, que nous soyons malade ou bien portant, sont (...)

#Apple #DeepMind #Google #Microsoft #Novartis #Otsuka #Pfizer #Sanofi #Symantec #UnitedHealthGroup #Verily #Amazon #Facebook #PatientsLikeMe #algorithme #bracelet #Fitbit #montre #smartphone #biométrie (...)

##[fr]Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données__RGPD_[en]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_[nl]General_Data_Protection_Regulation__GDPR_ ##HealthDataHub ##prédiction ##BigData ##écoutes ##GAFAM ##InternetOfThings ##santé ##SocialNetwork ##CNIL

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« Google veut établir une véritable carte de la santé humaine »
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2019/05/22/google-veut-etablir-une-veritable-carte-de-la-sante-humaine_5465486_3234.htm

La firme s’allie avec quatre des plus grands laboratoires pharmaceutiques mondiaux pour faciliter les essais de médicaments en s’appuyant sur les données des internautes. Une initiative qui devrait soulever de nombreuses questions étiques, estime Philippe Escande, éditorialiste économique au « Monde ». Pertes & profits. En dépit des taxes et des amendes qui pleuvent sur sa tête, Google tient la santé. En décidant quasi unanimement d’approuver l’idée d’une imposition du chiffre d’affaires (...)

#Alphabet #Google #Otsuka #Pfizer #Sanofi #Verily #algorithme #capteur #publicité #profiling #santé (...)

##publicité ##santé ##Novartis

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Scientists plan to trick Zika-carrying mosquitoes into breeding themselves out of existence - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/07/19/scientists-plan-to-trick-zika-carrying-mosquitoes-into-breeding-them

This summer, a Silicon Valley tech company will have millions of machine-raised, bacteria-infected mosquitoes packed into windowless white vans, driven inland and released into the wild — or, at least, the streets of Fresno, Calif.

And, yes, Fresno County officials are encouraging this.

It’s all part of the “#Debug_Fresno” project, which aims to cut down on the number of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, an unwelcome invasive species that arrived in California’s Central Valley in 2013. In addition to being potential carriers of the #Zika, dengue fever and chikungunya viruses, the Aedes aegypti also adapted rapidly to the area’s residential neighborhoods, to the chagrin of residents and officials alike.

“It’s a terrible nuisance, a terrible biting nuisance. It’s changed the way people can enjoy their back yard and it’s a threat for disease transmission,” said Steve Mulligan, district manager for the region’s Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District. “So we’re looking for new ways to eliminate it.”

To do so, district officials have partnered with tech companies to use an approach that has gained traction in recent years. Inside a lab, millions of the mosquitoes will be infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which changes the reproductive ability of males. Afterward, only those male mosquitoes — which don’t bite — will be released to mate with unsuspecting female Aedes aegypti.

Even if the females lay eggs, those eggs will never hatch. Eventually, officials hope to reduce the population of Aedes aegypti, generation by generation, until they are eliminated from the area.
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This year’s mosquitoes are being bred and distributed by #Verily, a subsidiary of #Alphabet that was formerly known as #Google_Life_Sciences. Verily officials estimate that this year, they will release 1 million mosquitoes per week in Fresno County, more than 25 times last summer’s numbers. That is possible because they’ve developed ways to breed and separate male and female mosquitoes on a larger scale.

Alphabet, maison mère de Google, veut collecter les données de santé de 10 000 volontaires
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2017/04/20/alphabet-maison-mere-de-google-veut-collecter-les-donnees-de-sante-de-10-000

Le projet Baseline vise à compiler, sur plusieurs années, ces données d’Américains en bonne santé, afin de servir de base de travail à des chercheurs. Quelles sont vos habitudes alimentaires ? Dormez-vous bien ? Quelle est votre fréquence cardiaque ? Comment vont vos yeux ? Et votre audition ? Votre respiration ? Et qu’en est-il de votre humeur ? Comment cela évolue-t-il avec le temps ? Voici quelques exemples des données que compte rassembler Alphabet, la maison mère de Google, dans un projet (...)

#Alphabet #prédiction #santé #biométrie #Verily #Baseline #Google_X #BigData

##santé

2016 Google Tracker: Everything Google is working on for the new year

▻http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/2016-google-tracker-everything-google-is-working-on-for-the-new-year

A good and comprehensive wrap-up of the Imperium Alphabetum

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#Google #Alphabet
#Google_X, #Sidewalk_Labs, #DeepMind, #Google_Capital, Access and Energy, #Calico, #Nest, GV, #Verily, ATAP, Ads, #Android, Apps, Maps, Search, #Youtube, Infrastructure