Tag: EXPLOITATION

Facebook is joining forces with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Department of Justice to broadcast Amber Alerts across the social network. Each state will soon have its own Amber Alert page, where concerned users will be able to find the latest updates on children who have gone missing in their areas. The official announcement is expected to come at a press ...

If you ever find yourself frustrated while making photocopies or fetching coffee as a summer intern, take a moment and consider how much worse it could be: you could be an intern at Chinese news site Southern Weekend, where you could be sent on an undercover, month-long assignment in China's suicide-prone Foxconn factory (which is responsible for producing iPhone prototypes). That's exactly ...

Pete Waterman, the songwriter (and apparent cry-baby) behind the Rick Astley hit 'Never Gonna Give You Up,' is claiming that the tiny royalty check he received from Google and YouTube amounts to exploitation. Now, to be fair, Waterman did only receive £11 (about $16) in royalties last year from Google, despite being the man behind the song that spawned the Internet phenomena known as Rick ...