Isabella Walker, autor en Straytrees

Jan

2024

Brazilian police are investigating Carlos Bolsonaro, son of the former president, in a case of illegal espionage

Week after week the police and judicial siege tightens around the former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, who lost power and immunity 13 months ago. Federal police are investigating his son Carlos, 41, a city councilor in Rio de Janeiro, in a case of illegal espionage perpetrated by Brazilian secret services during his father's tenure, Reuters confirmed on Monday. The investigators are ordered to search his house and official office; They suspect that the mayor and digital strategist of the Bolsonaro clan was one of the recipients of information collected without judicial authorization. The patriarch and leader of the Brazilian…

Jan

2024

By Isabella Walker

Ring to Stop Allowing Police to Request Videos From Security Cameras

Science and Technology

Ring, a home security camera company owned by Amazon, said that it would stop letting police departments request users’ footage in its app amid longstanding concerns from privacy advocates about the company’s relationship with law enforcement.Eric Kuhn, the general manager of subscriptions and software for the Ring app Neighbors, announced on Wednesday that the company was shutting down a feature that allowed the police to request and receive videos from users of the app, a social platform similar to Nextdoor and Citizen where people can share alerts about crime near their home.Mr. Kuhn did not say why Ring was eliminating…

Jan

2024

By Isabella Walker

What Hefei, China’s EV City, Says About the State of the Economy

Investments and Business

Ultramodern factories churn out electric cars and solar panels in Hefei, an industrial center in the heart of central China. Broad avenues link office towers and landscaped parks. Subway lines open at a brisk pace.Yet at Hefei’s market for construction materials, which fills 10 city blocks, local merchants are gloomy. Wu Junlin, a vendor of doors, has closed two of his three stores and laid off all but one of his dozen employees.“I have been doing this for 20 years — after all these years, this year is the worst,” he said, sitting in his last store with no customers…

Jan

2024

By Isabella Walker

Walmart ofrece a los gerentes de tiendas acciones de la empresa para que se sientan “propiedades”

Politics

Walmart, el empleador privado más grande del país, está aumentando los salarios y beneficios de los gerentes de tiendas mientras busca formas de retenerlos.Walmart dijo el lunes que los gerentes de sus tiendas en Estados Unidos serán elegibles para recibir subvenciones de hasta 20.000 dólares en acciones de la empresa cada año. Las acciones se otorgarán durante un período de tres años, con un porcentaje de adjudicación cada trimestre.A principios de este mes, Walmart dijo que aumentaría el salario promedio de los gerentes de tienda de 117.000 dólares a 128.000 dólares. El gran minorista también dijo que las bonificaciones para…