#consumer
Global News BC: After complaints, Transport Canada launching in-depth review of Chevrolet Volt hybrid https://globalnews.ca/news/10153443/transport-canada-review-chevy-volt/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #ConsumerMatters #TransportCanada #GeneralMotors #Chevrolet #Consumer #Economy
Global News BC: 23andMe breach: ‘Thousands’ seek to join B.C. class-action suit after 6.9M hacked https://globalnews.ca/news/10151399/23andme-breach-hack-class-action-lawsuit-bc/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #23andMeclass-actionlawsuit #23andMedatabreach #23andMehack #Consumer #Trending #23andMe #Canada #News
Microsoft will offer extended security updates for Windows 10 https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/12/06/esu-windows-10/ #securityupdate #endofsupport #enterprise #Don'tmiss #Hotstuff #consumer #Windows #News
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Tech (Global News): Canada’s telecom sector awaiting regulatory decisions after significant shakeup https://globalnews.ca/news/10145996/canada-telecom-sector-changes-2024/ #globalnews #TechNews #Technology #telecomsector #CanadaNews #Consumer #Politics #Canada #Tech #CRTC
We criminalize #sexual #prostitution.
But all #advertising is, at root, *sexualized* #corporate prostitution.
Bottling up the urge to #procreate just better allows the elite to bottle the urge to procreate.
A #consumer, at the end of the day, is little more than the #commercial expression of repressed sexual drive.
Global News BC: B.C. Hyundai Plug-In Hybrid owner hit with $15,000 electric battery cost https://globalnews.ca/news/10140011/bc-hyundai-plug-in-hybrid-owner-electric-battery-cost/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #ConsumerMatters #Electricbattery #Consumer #Hyundai #hybrid
Global News BC: Video shows B.C. delivery drivers dropping, rolling expensive packages https://globalnews.ca/news/10140140/video-shows-bc-delivery-drivers-dropping-packages/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Deliveryfailvideo #FedExdeliveryfail #fedexdelivery #Consumer
Global News BC: Princeton, B.C. mayor calls for investigation into notoriously high gas prices https://globalnews.ca/news/10140863/prinecton-mayor-investigation-high-gas-prices/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Risinggasprices #highgasprices #southokanagan #PetroCananda #OkanaganGas #GasPrices #Princeton #Consumer #Okanagan #chevron #Husky #Esso #Gas
Food Twin - Interactive Map Shows Where Your Food Comes From
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https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/11/21/interactive-map-shows-where-your-food-comes <-- shared CU Boulder technical article
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https://food.theplotline.org/ <-- Food Twin web map / map
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #digitaltwin #FoodTwin #food #agriculture #spatialanalysis #USA #data #routing #producer #consumer #farming #foodsecurity #map #ThePlotline #CUBoulder #EarthGenome #foodsystem #logistics #infrastructure #crops #cropland #meat #vegetables #fruit #network #FarmToFork #farmtotable #climatechange #heatstress #drought #water #groundwater #foodsystems #foodsource #foodbusiness
Global News BC: After B.C. sextortion tragedy, online harm bill expected ‘soon’: LeBlanc https://globalnews.ca/news/10121111/bc-sextortion-prince-george-online-harms/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #DominicLeBlanc #ArifVirani #cybercrime #Onlineharm #Sextortion #Consumer #Politics #Canada
Can someone explain to me how you justify charging 3 to 4 dollars per kilogram more for unpackaged, fruit and vegetables, than identical produce in plastic packaging?
#consumer #ClimateEmergency #recycling #climateChange #Australia #food
Global News BC: Greater Vancouver’s first ‘booze-free bottle shop and beverage room’ opens https://globalnews.ca/news/10115390/greater-vancouver-bar-non-alcoholic-drinks/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BCnon-alcoholic #PortCoquitlam #NonAlcoholic #Consumer #Canada
#europa ##Ökologie #umwelt #pressemitteilung #wirtschaft #gutesleben #kaufnixtag #konsum #konsumgesellschaft #konsumismus
#europe #ecology #environment #pressrelease #press #economy
#goodliving #consumption #consumer #society #consumerism
Anlässlich des alljährlich auf den Kaufrausch des #blackfriday nachfolgenden „Kauf-Nix-Tages“ am 25. November erneuern wir die Kritik an der verschwenderischen Produktion überflüssiger Waren und fordern mehr regionales Wirtschaften.
https://www.attac.de/startseite/teaser-detailansicht/news/kauf-nix-tag-2023
Also, particularly while the whole #BlackFriday & #Xmas consumerism orgy proceeds, it's worth bearing in mind.
#meme #Consumer #ConsumerPower #Buycott #BearInMind
I see currency traders have been emboldened to bid up sterling by a rise in #consumer confidence...
Strangely, that's a rise from minus 30 to minus 24... remember 0 means as many people feel positive about their economic prospects as feel negative... so minus 24 means that (in the survey sample at least) a big majority still feel negative about the finances ... just not quite as many as before.
Those currency traders really are desperate for good news aren't they?
Global News BC: Younger B.C. generations spending less on groceries, more on app deliveries https://globalnews.ca/news/10111399/younger-b-c-generations-spending-less-on-groceries-more-on-app-deliveries/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #bcfoodbudgets #BCfoodcosts #foodcosts #Consumer #Economy #Vancity #Canada
Global News BC: Rogers Sugar strike shortage: the Grinch who could steal Christmas? https://globalnews.ca/news/10108974/rogers-sugar-strike-shortage-bakeries/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #RogersSugarStrike #Christmasbaking #RogersSugar #Consumer #Baking #Sugar
Global News BC: Dodgy Toonies from Quanzhou: How CBSA says it nabbed man with 26,630 fake $2 coins from China https://globalnews.ca/news/10082240/counterfeit-toonies-coins-china-quebecer-arrested/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #counterfeitcoins #Investigations #Consumer #Canada #Crime #China #CBSA #RCMP
@WecanbeGyros
Everything that helps is welcome, but shouldn't hide the mass of reduction we need to go through.
Best example is #EV frenzy: yes we need to get rid of #car #pollution, but a simple shift to #EVs is bringing as many new problems and what's needed is to reconsider when individual #cars are needed at all.
Same for #consumer goods: #recycling is the minimum, #repairing desirable, but for many not producing them at all is best: #SecondHand frenzies hold also their hidden flaws.
Global News BC: Electric car shock: Ontario man told new battery would cost more than $50,000 https://globalnews.ca/news/10103753/electric-car-shock-50000-battery/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #ElectricVehicles #electriccars #Consumer #Hyundai
Global News BC: Will the Rogers Sugar strike affect holiday baking plans? Here’s what to know https://globalnews.ca/news/10098917/rogers-sugar-holiday-baking-what-to-know/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #RogersSugarStrike #sugarshortage #Consumer #Economy #Canada #Bakers #Sugar
Global News BC: 3 brands of cantaloupe recalled across Canada due to risk of salmonella https://globalnews.ca/news/10099541/cantaloupe-salmonella-canada/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #CanadianFoodInspectionAgency #Cantaloupe #FoodRecall #Salmonella #Consumer #Canada #Health #CFIA
Global News BC: B.C. Christmas tree growers facing another tough year https://globalnews.ca/news/10096632/b-c-christmas-tree-industry/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #ChristmasTree #ClimateChange #Consumer #Holidays #Drought
Well, this article from 2020 about Best Buy has me reconsidering them as a store to get stuff.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xg8xa3/best-buy-anti-union-presentation
Plant-based #meat products served out-of-home grow by 50% across Europe (vs pre-COVID levels) as #consumer demand #sustainable, healthier & cruelty-free menu options and expect #restaurants to satisfy special dietary or food needs: https://www.circana.com/intelligence/press-releases/2023/plant-based-meat-products-served-out-of-home-grow-by-almost-50-across-europes-big-5-countries/ #plantbased #catering
Cereal #consumer #disappointment - the pictures are of unopened bags of museli next to the much taller boxes they came in... A classic #marketing trick - note on the left how finely tuned the height of museli in the bag is against the window in the front of the box. A lot of empty space is being freighted around to trick people!
Global News BC: Solar, battery storage facility officially opens in Summerland, B.C. https://globalnews.ca/news/10092377/new-energy-centre-summerland-bc/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BatteryStorageFacility #districtofsummerland #costsavingproject #utilityscalesolar #Environment #summerland #Consumer
@danie10 it's an absolute disaster these days with myriad products - offcourse they prefer you to throw it away and buy new. A friend has an #Oneal Motorcycle Helmet and wanted to buy a new Visor. It's a standard replaceable stock-item, but simply marked as 'out of stock' - permanently. Any #Motorcycle enthusiast, be warned not to purchase O'Neal products if you value the #environment and your money. #Waste #RightToRepair #Consumer #DarkPattern
GSK Plc will pay #23andMe Holding Co. $20M for #GeneticTesting company’s vast #trove of #consumer #DNAData, extending a 5 yr collaboration that’s allowed the #drugmaker to mine #geneticdata as it researches new #medications. Under the new agreement, 23andMe will provide GSK with one year of access to anonymized #DNA data from the approximately 80% of gene-testing customers who have agreed to share their information for research. Really? #privacy #medicine #healthcare https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-30/23andme-will-give-gsk-access-to-consumer-dna-data
Believe it or not, I don't normally do much work-based stuff here, so here's a bit of a change.
#IoT #labels #cybersecurity #consumer
https://blogs.cisco.com/gov/iot-consumer-label
#VICE is asking the wrong question:
Why do we allow the #Enshittification of #eSIM|s on #consumer devices?
Shouldn't a person have the inalienable right to use their plans and tariffs in whatever device they want to??
Because #NetNeutrality :loading: also means #Choices in terms of #Devices and Plans!!!
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bmvjaa/why-are-sim-cards-still-a-thing-cell-phones-technology
Now that stores are starting to pull the useless decongestant meds, I'm hoping they overturn the stupid law that restricts the sale of pseudoephedrine - something that does work. We have to show ID and the purchase amount tracked because some inept lawmakers thought we were making meth from it instead of using it through COVID and allergy suffering. #medicine #badlaws #consumer
The choice, joy and convenience of #OnlineShopping at #Woolworths #SouthAfrica. Where Long Life Milk, means Short Life Milk. This is not the first time and unfortunately #Woolies love dumping a myriad of their just-about-to-expire stock with Online Shoppers. 🤬 Have you noticed similar behaviour and what is your experience with other online in-convenience stores? #Consumer
#ECJ: Online learning platforms - The #consumer’s right to withdraw from an initially free and automatically extended online subscription is guaranteed only once 👉 https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_7052/
Can someone explain to me the ev credit that many (people, media, etc) deduct from prices? I don't think it works that way since it's mostly for tax purpose. Just another way to mislead consumers. Am I misunderstanding it?
#ev #taxcredit #evcredit #incentive #marketing #consumer #askfedi #askfediverse #askmastodon
🔥 Workers at Seward Community #Coop in #Minneapolis #Minnesota have voted overwhelmingly to authorize an Unfair Labor Practices (ULP) strike.
These #union members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 663 are demanding the #consumer #cooperative stand behind its talk about equity and support "our need to lift up our communities, our member-owners, and the hard work that we do to keep Seward Coop running."
Yes, I still think #Fairphone sounds like a good idea.
No, I'm still not paying 6-7-800 f**king Euros for a f**king #phone.
It's a f**king phone.
Y'all seem to have way too much money on your hands and/or way too little judgement what to spend it on.
#Disqo Teams Up With #DotheWerq for #LGBTQIA+ #Consumer #Insights #Report.
The #consumer #behavior #report dives into #evolving #perceptions of #brand #influence, #wokeness and #boycotts.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Business #Allies #Representation #Culture https://wwd.com/business-news/business-features/disqo-do-the-werq-lgbtq-consumer-insights-report-1235824728/
That being said #AIX and the #RS6000 is as far away from a #consumer #PC as #zArchitecture, #DB2 and a lot of other #IBM products...
After all #Services make #Software,
Software makes #Operating Systems,
#OperatingSystems make #Hardware.
Otherwise noone would deal with #AMD64 and everyone would've transitioned to #ARM64 or even #RiscV #128Bit ages ago...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzhCGSE7KKw&t=4017s
#Career #CivilServants include #professional staff across the government who stay on when the presidency changes hands. They vary widely, including #law enforcement officers & #technical #experts at agencies that #Congress created to make rules aimed at ensuring the #air & #water are #clean & #food, #drugs & #consumer products are #safe.
*Internet Con* is a "#BigTech disassembly manual." It explains how Big Tech got so big (lax anti-#monopoly enforcement, which led to #RegulatoryCapture, which let Big Tech abuse our privacy, #labor rights, and #consumer rights), and how we can use #interoperability so it's no longer #TooBigToFail, nor #TooBigToJail:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con
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#Consumer advocates said the 2½ year delay hampered the FCC’s ability to carry out critical tasks aimed at protecting Americans from potential #abuse by the #TelecomGiants, including reinstating the Obama-era #NetNeutrality #regulations, which bar #internet service providers from blocking or throttling #content.
White #male #victimhood #personality matched w/ douchebag #consumer #identity spells #MAGA.
Looking at data on #consumer spending (provided by Barclaycard), it looks like while many sectors are recovery, despite the #costoflivingcrisis continuing, for #hospitality (and specifically #restaurants) there has been no recovery, just more decline;
certainly round here 3 restaurants are up for sale (and have been for a while) suggesting there is a shake-out taking place in the eating out market, drive by a shift in how the cash-strapped are spending their money...
I now have personal experience of #consumer terms and conditions which turned me off from using something. The clause which broke me? I must "act in the best interests of the Company". Who the hell advises people to put that in a #contract?! #Singapore #spooked
📣 New #DigitalMarketsAct public consultation on the description of #consumer profiling techniques.
Gatekeepers cumulate large amounts of #data, transparency on these techniques allow fairer competition.
➡️ Have your say before 15 September.
#DMA
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/DigitalEU/status/1686323388191813632
The #Amazon Clinic #telehealth service has now rolled out for all 50 states and D.C. This is an important milestone in such services, and underscores the #consumer desire for more convenient access to #healthcare services. https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-clinic-available-nationwide #healthtech
Global News BC: Group sues after Indigenous artist’s designs ‘taken,’ sold in gift shop https://globalnews.ca/news/9863415/lawsuit-indigenous-art-theft-precedent/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #CopyrightInfringement #FrancisHorneSr. #NativeNorthwest #CoastSalishArt #IndigenousArt #Indigenous #Copyright #Sasquatch #Consumer #artfraud #Lawsuit #Canada
Am I the only one who sees #Barbenheimer as an outstanding exercise in #guerillamarketing & not an organic outpouring of fandom?
Am I being too cynical?
Is it really an exercise in #consumer agency, as the #media seem to be trying to establish?
Selling Your #CellphoneLocation #Data Might Soon Be Banned in U.S. for First Time. #Massachusetts considers #law at the vanguard of a broader movement to protect #consumer #privacy https://www.wsj.com/articles/first-u-s-ban-on-sale-of-cellphone-location-data-might-be-coming-fbe47e53?mod=rss_Technology
The rule is that the #Fediverse is for things you love not things you #hate; unless either of those are made by a #corporation, in which case it's vice versa.
Enshittification: Cory's summary of the business forces that cause tech products to get worse over time
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
#capitalism #startups #business #consumer #tech #+
Dear online vendors,
Please stop making it more difficult for me to use ephemeral, digital credit cards.
Yours truly,
Someone who doesn’t like using their primary credit card(s) or bank account information online when they can avoid it because I’ve seen how companies treat information security and digital privacy and it makes me very concerned
P.S. Stop making people sign up to your site and give more information than what’s necessary just to make a purchase. And, no, I don’t want your buggy app that requires a ton of permissions either.
#Venting #DigitalPrivacy #Digital #OnlineShopping #Online #Infosec #InformationSecurity #ConsumerPrivacy #Consumer
Infographic – Tech Layoffs Decline This Year
#Employment in the #technology industry is becoming more stable as #layoffs by tech companies overall have steadily declined since the start of 2023.
https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=44916
#News #Engineering #Business #Economics #Jobs #Statistics #Hardware #Consumer #Retail #HealthCare #Infographic
🧐 Let's see:
A $20 Million fine on 2021's revenue of $16.28 Billion comes to ... not even worth calculating. And likely not much of a deterrent.
(FTA: "the $20 million fine represents 0.03% of Microsoft's total revenue")
#Technology #Privacy #Microsoft #Xbox #Consumer #BigTech #FTC #Consent
.@W_Wiewiorowski@twitter.com I am optimistic as to the overall direction we are heading to, and I believe it will contribute to enhance #innovation and #consumer welfare. 3/3
#DoSomething
651M carbon tons of domesticated & largely industrially raised mammals on earth.
vs.
Only 24M carbon tons of wild mammals.
651 vs 24 !
A cause of massive & spiralling problems, it is unsustainable & storing up significant damage for the future.
Trying to avoid products from animal industries, especially in our own homes, so using our significant consumer activism power is the only real way to change this.
#Environment #Climate #Sustainability #Consumer #Activism #Resilience
Seaweed Biomaterials Start-Up Gains $5M in Early Funds
A new company creating #biomaterials for #agriculture and #consumer products from large #seaweed blooms is adding $5 million in its first venture #funding round.
https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=44666
#News #Science #Business #Sargassum #Algae #Caribbean #Recycling #Sustainable #Materials #Agriculture #Cosmetics #Finance #VentureCapital
Global News BC: Unemployment rate in Kelowna, B.C. improves to 4% in 2023 https://globalnews.ca/news/9479621/unemployment-rate-kelowna-improves/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #StatisticsCanada #UnemploymentRate #BritishColumbia #centralokanagan #Unemployment #Consumer #Pandemic #Economy #Kelowna #Canada #Job
Learn to be a better designer with the book “Better Onboarding” by me & @abookapart! https://abookapart.com/products/better-onboarding
#onboarding isn’t just about apps. All #ux & #HCI folks need to understand it. Because it’s all about closing the gap between systems, services, products, & the humans that use them. The principles in the book extend to all sorts of sectors & interfaces, like #consumer #enterprise #publicsector #biotech #devices and beyond. 🌈
For the new year, watch these videos:
1. How an arbitrarily mundane everyday item is produced in a factory, like pencils, car tires, frying pan, etc.
2. How unwanted cars are dismantled with large robotic arms, or similar video
3. How to effectively reuse or recycle items
3. THX-1138
Then reshape your view of humanity’s influence in the world if needed. #consumer
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Now that the holiday shopping season is over, 'tis the season for customer feedback surveys. A comic from a few months ago:
#IdentityThieves Bypassed #Experian #Security to View #CreditReports – #KrebsOnSecurity
"Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three #consumer #credit reporting bureaus. ... All that was needed was the person’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number."
Have you used a "Buy Now, Pay Later" service? 💸
It's is a largely unregulated but growing corner of the debt market, and it's affecting its biggest users – young adults.
💳 90% of young Australians experienced financial difficulties at some point in 2022, but is it related to BNPL use?
🔗 Here's what the research says: https://theconversation.com/90-of-young-people-had-financial-troubles-in-2022-and-27-used-buy-now-pay-later-services-195809
#money #finance #business #youth #consumer #debt #shopping #research #AcademicMastodon
So many bad actors here that serious systemic change is needed.
►Statutory fines for privacy disclosures (paid to those harmed).
►Specious "anonymizing" claims should be per se fraud.
►Civil fines should be clawed back from C-level bonuses.
►Significantly limit use of mandatory arbitration against consumers.
►Rebuttable presumption that privacy policies do NOT constitute consent.
#privacy #consent #consumer #healthcare #bigtech #fraud #telehealth #facebook #google
New #introductions now that I migrated from my prior account. I'm a #lawprof in #NYC. Research #bankruptcy #consumer #protection #commercial #law. Mainly via #empirical studies. I'm on sabbatical this semester, happily (and frantically) #writing two books. One is about Black #churches that file #chapter11 bankruptcy to #reorganize. The other is about people who file bankruptcy. I also post about my #cats, #vegan food, #queer life, and living with a congenital heart defect (#chd).