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Always Watching: Apple Watch Design Reveals Creepy Camera Feature

Tech giant Apple has filed a patent for a radical change to its popular smartwatch that reveals the company’s potential plans to install a tiny camera in the device. The ability to take pictures of others without them noticing is a further advancement of surveillance capitalism and the continued erosion of privacy rights.

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Elon Musk Tops List of Highest Paid Fortune 500 CEOs with $23.5 Billion

According to Fortune’s list of the top 10 highest-paid CEOs of the Fortune 500, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk received the highest compensation in 2021 while Apple CEO Tim Cook trailed just behind. Musk’s realized compensation of $23.5 billion in 2021 dwarfs Cook’s otherwise impressive $770.5 million haul.

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Apple Delays Return to Office After Woke Employee Mob Calls Its Plans Racist

Apple has reversed course on its plans to return to normal operations and has suspended requirements that employees return to the office this month for at least three days a week. The U-turn comes after woke employees called the mandate to return to the office a racist move designed to make the company “younger, whiter, and male-dominated.”

Apple's Tim Cook calls for privacy bill with right to delete data

Woke Apple Accused of Racism by Employees Who Don’t Want to Return to the Office

A group of 200 Apple employees calling themselves “Apple Together” recently wrote an open letter condemning the company’s choices to bring staffers back to offices and accusing the woke tech giant of racism. According to the employees, Apple asking employees to return to the office is actually an attempt to make the workforce “younger, whiter, and male-dominated.”

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Report: Apple Faces Probe by Multiple States over Deceptive Trade Practices

Multiple U.S. states have reportedly launched an investigation into tech giant Apple over allegations that the company deceived consumers. The new investigations come just years after “batterygate,” in which Apple was caught slowing down older iPhones via software updates.  The Masters of the Universe blamed battery health for the slowdown, which also conveniently made a new iPhone purchase more attractive.

Tim _Apple_ Cook testifying via TV (Pool/Getty)

Google Plans Privacy Changes Similar to the Apple Policy that Cost Facebook Billions

Google announced this week that it’s planning to introduce new privacy restrictions that will reduce app tracking across its Android devices, similar to the system implemented by Apple that contributed to Facebook’s historic drop in market value due to its impact on Mark Zuckerberg’s invasive targeted advertising. Although Facebook has publicly fought a war of words with Apple over its privacy measures, it is publicly supporting Google’s change.

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Recode: Apple Wrecked Facebook’s Ad Business with Commonsense Privacy Changes

In a recent article, Vox’s Recode outlines how Apple’s privacy update that allows users to prevent websites like Facebook from tracking them has had a massively negative effect on the social media giant’s revenue. Facebook (now Meta) relies on gaining access to the entire private lives of its users to appeal to advertisers, and Apple’s commonsense policies have caused major problems for Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe.

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Ministry of Truth: Apple Makes It Harder for Ex-Employees to Get Jobs by Erasing Their Job Title

Former Apple employees are alleging that once they left the company, their position at the firm was retroactively updated to “associate,” making it harder for former workers to accurately describe their roles when applying for new jobs. One former employee claims a job verification service was unable to verify her title at Apple, resulting in a lost job opportunity.

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‘Freight Train’ Apple Posts Record Quarterly Revenue

After Apple posted a record quarterly revenue of $124 billion on Thursday, analysts described the company as a “freight train at the moment.” CEO Tim Cook noted on the tech giant’s earnings call that inflation is a major factor as well as “Logistics, as I’ve mentioned on a previous call, is very elevated in terms of the cost of moving things around.”

Apple's bombshell and the trillion-dollar question (AFP)