Geoff White
Did UK spooks use NSA data to spy on Britons?
A new report on how GCHQ and the UK’s other spy agencies used NSA data is published – but it leaves many questions still unanswered.
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Narco gang violence overshadows Ecuador presidential election
Presidential elections in Ecuador are going to a run off – after no candidate managed to get enough votes in the first round to be declared the winner.
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President Trump v Amazon – is it about profits or politics?
In one corner, one of the most valuable companies in the world. In the other – the US President. Amazon is the latest target of Donald Trump’s twitter postings – and CEO Jeff Bezos is paying the price on Wall Street.
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Potentially deadly bomb ingredients are ‘frequently bought together’ on Amazon
A Channel 4 News investigation can reveal how Amazon’s algorithm can guide users to the chemical combinations for producing explosives.
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Yvette Cooper: Amazon findings ‘very disturbing’
Yvette Cooper, chair of the home affairs committee, responds to our report on Amazon.
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Geoff White
More than meets the eye: phones at the heart of retail technology
Do companies need to use technologies like iris recognition when it’s our mobile phones that have, in effect, become extensions of ourselves?
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Gary Gibbon
David Cameron, China’s Amazon and Tibet
David Cameron is unabashed as he pushes Britain’s business interests in China. His message on human rights and Tibet, however, is getting more blurred.
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Siobhan Kennedy
The grim reality of life on zero hours contracts
Hundreds of thousands of carers are on zero hours contracts. That means no job security or guaranteed hours and work that can be cancelled at the drop of a hat.
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Siobhan Kennedy
Is the number up for Amazon, Google and Starbucks on tax?
Why Friday could mark the end for multinationals using legal loopholes to make billions in the UK and then shift the profits out of the country to pay little or no tax.
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Geoff White
A trip up the Amazon and beyond
Internet giant Amazon has a lot of power as a shopfront, but there is a way to contact its suppliers direct if you’re prepared for a few extra clicks ..
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Tough on tax, but is it all talk? FactCheck
The government’s promising it’s cracking down on tax avoiders. Are their claims avoidance or evasion? FactCheck finds out.
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Siobhan Kennedy
Google in the hot seat – but HMRC feeling the heat
Matt Brittin, Google’s boss in northern Europe, will be showing a humble face in front of MPs this morning. But it is the taxman who should face the toughest questions.
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Tax avoidance: cracks in the offshore crackdown
The latest government promise to get tough with corporate tax dodgers raises more questions than it answers.
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Stopping the Great Amazonian Chainsaw Massacre
On a patch of grass outside the Rondonia State headquarters for Brazil’s airborne Amazon police stands a post-modern totem pole. A metal tree, 20 feet high, whose branches are recycled chainsaws on stalks. The whole thing is painted forest green. The chainsaws are real. All of them, confiscated by police officers from illegal loggers. Weapons,…