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Microsoft has announced four U.S.-centric initiatives to foster a healthy culture at its workplace. These include removing non-compete clauses for almost all employee and increasing pay transparency.

As a part of its commitment to U.S. President Joe Biden, Google has joined hands with the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) to manage security priorities and fix flaws in eight projects.

Twitter has announced that it has finalized the scope of its Brand Safety audit to be conducted by the Media Ratings Council (MRC). The pre-assessment for this audit is kicking off soon.

After major advertisers, including Coca Cola and Starbucks, have suspended advertising on the platform, the firm is attempting to alleviate current concerns about hate speech controls.

Facebook has reminded developers to submit their third-party apps for review by August 1st in order to carry on using the Facebook APIs. Checks are being made to prevent misuse of user data.

Facebook has confirmed that it has begun a previously announced audit of apps which may have gleaned a lot of data before a 2014 change was put in place. It said 200 apps were suspended so far.

In its annual audit of working conditions among its suppliers, Apple found that the environmental and labor violations had doubled over the previous year. The company found 44 core violations in 2017.

A report from the Fair Labor Association claims it recorded numerous violations of worker law rights at Foxconn plants that make products for Apple. Foxconn has agreed to make changes for its workers.

A third-party audit of the new phishing filter built into the Internet Explorer 7 browser and the MSN Toolbar has given the technology a thumbs up on the sensitive issue of user privacy. Jefferson Wells...

Thanks Vla Deloitte & Touche has released a product activation audit report dated 1st of October that looks at the Product Activation from an end-users point of view, then rates it. The...