The county health department reported last week that a food handler employed at a Starbucks restaurant in Gloucester Township was working for some time while infectious. People who were there on the correspondent dates are encouraged to get immunized “out of an abundance of caution,” and the department is offering …
Read More »Amazon threatens Visa customers with cutoff
Starting January 19, Amazon will no longer accept Visa cards, the company has declared, citing “high fees” as it throws down the gauntlet before one of the largest credit card issuers in the UK. Amazon has its own credit card, which is operated by Mastercard, and other cards – such as …
Read More »German state allows ALL businesses to ban unvaxxed customers – even for groceries & other essentials
Hessian supermarkets have been granted permission to deny the unvaccinated the right to buy food and other essentials, the state chancellery confirmed to German magazine BILD on Friday. Under the new policy, stores can decide whether to implement the so-called “2G rule,” which means allowing entry only to the vaccinated …
Read More »Apple ordered to let customers pay OUTSIDE App Store in big win for Epic Games, but Fortnite maker may have to cough up huge sum
US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued an injunction on Friday forcing Apple to release its death grip on fees charged on users’ app purchases, granting a partial victory to plaintiff Epic Games even while ordering the software company to pay damages to Apple for breaching its contract. Epic, makers …
Read More »National Institutes of Health director endorses customers – and possibly flyers – showing proof of vaccination before service
Asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper if he believes more businesses should be putting forth vaccine mandates for employees and customers, Collins confirmed he supported the proof of vaccination strategy to “encourage reluctant folks” to be less resistant. “As a public health person who wants to see this pandemic end, yes,” …
Read More »Personal data of 3.3 million US and Canadian Volkswagen customers stolen from vendor
In a letter sent out to customers on Friday, Volkswagen, which also owns Audi, warned that an “unauthorized third party” obtained customer data from a North American vendor between 2019 and 2021. The data itself had been gathered by the vendor between 2014 and 2019 for sales and marketing purposes. …
Read More »California cafe charging mask-wearing customers an extra $5 to pay for ‘collateral damage’ of Covid-19 restrictions
Chris Castleman, owner of the Fiddlehead Cafe in Mendocino, told NBC News the extra charges would be donated to charity. “I don’t think $5 to charity is too much to ask from mask-wearing customers who claim to care so much about the community they live in,” he said. Masks, he …
Read More »Vaccination segregation: Chicago restaurant separates customers by jab status, citing city’s Covid-19 rules
Moe’s Cantina pioneered the practice this past weekend, according to Chicago’s WBBM-TV. The restaurant was divided into an unrestricted, vaccinated section and another, where partitions and socially distanced tables remain. “We decided to divide, and you’re free to come on this side, go to the bar. You can be pre-pandemic,” …
Read More »‘Know your customer’ indeed! Banks deploy AI systems to monitor customers & employees alike
Speaking to Reuters earlier this week, City National’s chief information security officer Bobby Dominguez tried to put a positive spin on the dystopian step forward when interviewed by Reuters about the phenomenon on Thursday. noting “we’re already leveraging facial recognition on mobile. Why not leverage it in the real world?” …
Read More »Delta puts pro-Trump customers who yelled at Mitt Romney & Lindsey Graham on NO-FLY list
Delta CEO Ed Bastian announced the ban on Thursday alongside other security measures being put in place following the storming of the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump last week. Both Romney and Graham were the target of pro-Trump supporters at airports in recent viral videos, where they were …
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