You have one new friend request: Survey answers reveal workers’ dilemma and bosses’ motivation.
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Invasion of privacy? Survey asks workers about social media friend requests from the boss
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Richard Simmonds
Sep 22, 2017 - Tweet
- Japan
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WikiLeaks reveals US spied on Japanese government and corporations for at least three years
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Audrey Akcasu
Aug 2, 2015
Uh-oh, looks like the political relationship between the US and Japan may get a little shaky as whistleblower organization WikiLeaks has exposed America’s three-year surveillance of the Japanese government, major industries and banks. Even worse, it looks like the US may have also shared their collected info with other countries.
China fostering spy rings at Australian universities to monitor exchange students
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Jessica
Apr 30, 2014
There are almost 100,000 mainland Chinese students studying at Australian universities, where they are no doubt exposed to ideas that might be censored at home. This fact has not gone unnoticed by Chinese intelligence professionals, some of whom have admitted to a reporter for the respected Sydney Morning Herald that they recruit networks of students to monitor the Chinese community.
Hamsters Are Watching You
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Master Blaster
Dec 25, 2012
“Hamsters are watching you.”
Before, when I said this to people on the streets they would run away and get the police involved.
Well who’s laughing now? Thanks to this video documentation uploaded on YouTube, my paranoid delusions have been proven to be real. In it, the brave camera person captured a hamster stakeout in progress.
My delirium was further validated by Yahoo! who chose this shocking footage as the “10th best animal video of 2012.”
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