A court in the Brazilian northeastern state of Maranhão ordered Facebook and Zoom to compensate users for illegally harvesting their data. Both companies will have to pay BRL 20 million (just over USD 4 million) in collective damages and BRL 500 in individual compensation to each concerned user. In March 2020, Vice’s Motherboard website revealed […]
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The drama surrounding the succession process for the chief executive position at Vale, one of the world’s biggest mining companies, got a new chapter after one of its board members gave up his seat — firing at all sides. José Luciano Duarte Penido, an independent board member since 2019, said in a letter to current board […]
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The left wants to nationalize the mayoral race of São Paulo, leaning on the fact that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won more votes in the city during the 2022 election than Jair Bolsonaro — and treating front-runners Guilherme Boulos and Ricardo Nunes, the incumbent, as proxies of Lula and Mr. Bolsonaro, respectively. A […]
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Brazil’s recently sworn-in prosecutor general, Paulo Gonet, had promised senators who confirmed his nomination that he would conduct investigations on Brazil’s Covid response during the Jair Bolsonaro years (2019-2022), recommended by a 2021 Senate investigation. Months into Mr. Gonet’s two-year term, allies of the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva administration want to cash into his […]
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