Tag: corporate responsibility
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On the wrong track over iPhone privacy
Campaigners should worry less about gadgets recording our locations and more about why society doesn't value privacy. Anyone who has watched TV shows...
Insurers asked to show compassion for Queensland home owners
Anna Bligh has called on insurers to show compassion to policy-holders who have lost their homes and may not be covered for floods. Fear and grief...
Bringing the bankers to heel must start right here, right now
Big Finance has to be brought under control or outrageous bonuses will still be paid and there will be another crisis. Bankers' bonuses unite...
Give me Ryanair's brazen villainy over the bogus compassion of BP
A recent newspaper advertisement for Ryanair has a big picture of Robert Mugabe shaking his fist, under the headline: "Here's EasyJet's New Head...
Abandoning Andy Muirhead: ABC's act of betrayal
The ABC's reaction to the news that one of its employees Andy Muirhead has been charged with an offence allegedly involving child pornography is...
Oil spill gutting confidence - and staining reputations
In the US, which assumes no engineering challenge is beyond conquer - nor does it lack the private capital to achieve it - the brackish rouge beneath...
For Google, privacy just doesn’t compute
Google’s blasé attitude towards people’s private lives reflects a broader cultural indifference to privacy. These are strange...
Google: an anti-capitalist scapegoat?
Founded in 1998 by a pair of Stanford PhD students and initially housed, true to Silicon Valley start-up tradition, in a suburban garage, Google is...
Google: a company of contradictions
Google is a company of contradictions. It claims to be open, but guards its secrets fiercely. It presents itself as a green company, but owns the...
Turn up the heat on solariums
After the very public death of 26-year-old solarium customer Clare Oliver from melanoma in September 2007, health authorities introduced mandatory...
Toyota: Accelerating into trouble
The company’s problems sharply illustrate the failings of Japanese corporate governance. It is hard to overstate the importance of Toyota in...
Toyota, Computers and the Human Factor
Over the past decades, Toyota has built a strong presence in the United States by serving its consumers well and doing what the US government has...
The proof of the pudding
The shelves of every supermarket are packed with probiotic yogurts that can supposedly ease constipation and fend off infections, butter substitutes...
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