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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rich defendants spend millions to turn their luxury homes into jails with 24/7 guards.</li><li>Guards have been accused of going easy on their wards, and one defendant escaped to Venezuela.</li></ul>Most jail cells don't have five bedrooms, four fireplaces, an au pair's quarters, and sweeping views of downtown San Francisco. And most inmates don't get permission to spend seven leisurely days out with their children when they're in town. But until former technology CEO <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lynch-the-ex-autonomy-boss-charged-with-fraud-in-the-us-2018-11">Michael Lynch</a> is tried over allegations that he had a role in a multibillion-dollar fraud scheme, a house in the posh Pacific Heights neighborhood that was recently listed for rent at $22,000 a month is his cage. He's the latest to benefit from an interpretation of federal law that lets rich defendants, in essence, be their own jailers. Most people charged with nonviolent crimes are released while their cases wind through the system. But judges are required to consider whether a defendant is a flight risk when deciding whether to hold them in jail. Rich defendants, sometimes with international ties, deemed a flight risk have offered to not just stay on house arrest with a GPS ankle bracelet but also hire armed guards to stop them. At least 13 people have been released on conditions similar to Lynch's since 2007, Insider found. They've been charged over accusations of lying to banks, paying bribes, scamming investors out of billions of dollars, and even slavery. Some judges say the law gives them little choice but to release such defendants pending trial. "There are many defendants who are too poor to afford even the most modest of bail bonds or financial conditions of release," one judge wrote. "This is a serious flaw in our system. But it is not a reason to deny a constitutional right to someone who, for whatever reason, can provide reasonable assurances against flight." Judges have essentially set the rules for defendants hiring their own jailers on the fly. A lack of detailed regulations and standards means that some defendants with the resources to escape and evade US authorities can do just that — and one already has. <div type="image" title="A three-quarters view of a white, four-story house in San Francisco. Greenery hangs over the front gate and two-car garage and a sedan is parked out front." height="2593" width="3458" msid="102168998" hostid="261"></div><h2>Private jails of the rich and famous</h2>American jails hold <a target="_blank" href="https://bjs.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh236/files/media/document/ji21st.pdf">about 451,000 people</a>, a number that has changed little despite bail reforms across the country that were meant to drive it down. House arrest — where people accused or convicted of crimes are fitted with an ankle bracelet that alerts authorities to their whereabouts — has been <a target="_blank" href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/01/how-do-you-qualify-for-house-arrest.html">used for 40 years</a>. But around the 1990s, wealthy defendants who otherwise wouldn't qualify for home confinement began offering to pay for private security to keep an eye on them. And some judges have been amenable. The rarity of five-star in-home detention is partly because few can afford it; a security firm hired to guard the French economist and politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2011 said it would cost $200,000 a month, Bloomberg <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-05-25/stroz-friedberg-builds-bodyguard-business-with-madoff-strauss-kahn-cases">reported</a>. But it's also because many judges asked to sign off on such terms have dismissed them, often with withering disdain. In 1994, Richard Louis Minns, an immigration consultant who traveled the world under more than a dozen names and was found civilly liable for the attempted murder of an ex-girlfriend, asked a federal judge to let him hole up, with 24/7 security, in a five-bedroom Texas mansion that had a swimming pool. The judge didn't think it was practical and <a target="_blank" href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/863/360/1459863/">said</a> "it would be inimical to our system of justice to permit a defendant to 'buy' his release pending trial." White-collar defendants who have gotten the nod include the Ponzi schemer <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-bernie-madoffs-ponzi-scheme-worked-2014-7">Bernie Madoff</a> and David H. Brooks, the body-armor magnate accused of <a target="_blank" href="https://nypost.com/2008/01/04/no-more-swanky-panky/">looting his company</a> to pay for things such as a $10 million bat mitzvah for his daughter. Pursuant to court orders, their homes were stripped of electronic devices — no cellphones, no internet. Some went stir-crazy, The New York Times <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/nyregion/27bail.html">reported</a>. One defendant, Adnan Khashoggi, proposed being released to guards in 1989, the Los Angeles Times <a target="_blank" href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-07-20-mn-5193-story.html">reported</a>, but news reports don't indicate that the court imposed that condition. The first case Insider could find was the 2007 prosecution of Varsha and Mahender Sabhnani, who were accused of enslaving and abusing two Indonesian women at their Long Island, New York, home. Jeffrey Hoffman, a lawyer for Varsha, said the Sabhnanis didn't travel much but had children to raise and a perfume business to run. Hiring a team of guards led by an ex-chief investigator for a US attorney's office to monitor phone and internet activity, Hoffman said, was meant to allay the prosecution's concerns. The guards are often ex-detectives or FBI agents who can cost $200 an hour, but defendants still try to get around them. One of the off-duty police officers guarding <keyword id="23556011" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="samuel-cohen" source="keywords">Samuel Cohen</keyword>, a tech exec, reported that Cohen tried to pay him a $10,000 bribe, which resulted in Cohen being sent back to the slammer. And a guard from the firm <keyword id="23556009" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="stroz-friedberg" source="keywords">Stroz Friedberg</keyword> caught a woman trying to smuggle heroin to Cameron Douglas, the son of the actor Michael Douglas, inside an electric toothbrush. "The minute we brought him back from meeting with the DEA, I think, or the prosecutors, he starts saying, 'I want to brush my teeth. I want to brush my teeth,'" Anthony Valenti, the former chief investigator who was hired for the Sabhnani case and the Douglas case, said. "It was pretty obvious." Considering how brutal jails can be, experts said it's good that judges were inclined to accommodate well-off defendants. <keyword id="23556010" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="shima-baughman" source="keywords">Shima Baughman</keyword>, a professor at Brigham Young University who has written extensively about bail, said most defendants should be released without conditions and poor people should benefit from that, too — but that if a rich defendant who would otherwise pose a flight risk can afford security, it's better than the public footing the bill. The Founding Fathers felt "it was better to have ten guilty people go free than one innocent person be punished," Baughman said in an email, adding: "This is the way our criminal laws and protections are structured to protect the liberty of the innocent. Yes, once in a while someone escapes on bail but this is a rarity." <div type="image" title="This undated handout picture released on September 21, 2022 by the Instagram account of Interpol Venezuela shows Malaysian fugitive Francis Leonard Glenn, known as Fat Leonard, after his capture in Maiquetia, Venezuela." height="571" width="857" msid="102169002" hostid="261"></div><h2>'Fat Leonard' escaped, and a guard said security was lax</h2>There are only a few binding judicial precedents regarding home detention, so judges often look to how other judges have handled similar requests. The process isn't foolproof; last year, one wealthy defendant who built his own private jail found it easy to break out. Leonard Glenn "Fat Leonard" <keyword id="19934304" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="francis" source="keywords">Francis</keyword> was a key witness in the government's cases against US Navy officials it accused of accepting bribes in the form of cash, prostitutes, cigars, and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/malaysian-defense-contractor-leonard-francis-pleads-guilty-corruption-conspiracy">Spanish suckling pigs</a> in exchange for steering their ships to ports where Francis' company would overcharge them for refueling and other services. But Francis, who had been on medical release for cancer treatment for years with a guard who was supposed to be on-site at his home, bolted in 2022. He made it to Mexico and chartered a flight to Cuba. Francis was on the run for over two weeks before he was captured in Venezuela, with plans to make it to Russia, Interpol Venezuela's director general said at the time. He still hasn't been returned to the US, and it's not clear when he will be, given the frostiness of US-Venezuela relations. The full details of Francis' escape — including who was supposedly guarding him — haven't emerged. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23883227-us-v-leonard-glenn-francis-unsealed-fat-leonard-medical-furlough-hearing-transcripts-2018-to-2021">Transcripts</a> of hearings about his medical care show defense lawyers, prosecutors, and Judge Janis Sammartino as relatively unconcerned with who, specifically, was guarding him, only that he be guarded. At least one of the people who guarded him before his escape had a criminal record. Ricardo Buhain, who guarded Francis in 2018, said he was hired by one of Francis' doctors for $10,000 a month. He was <a target="_blank" href="https://archive.ph/ZNm6Q">convicted of felony theft in 2001</a> and spent 18 months in prison but told Insider no one asked about it while he was being hired. In 2021, after he was no longer working for Francis, Buhain pleaded guilty to statutory rape of a 17-year-old and served several months in jail. The former guard said he would accompany Francis on walks outside the property and drive him to approved locations, such as a church and his doctor offices. He said he was concerned that naval officers would try to exact retribution on Francis. Buhain said he was initially rigorous about sticking to protocols. "I was on high alert for the first several months," Buhain said. But after a while, he said, he stopped keeping logs of who came and went. Even though Francis was prohibited from accessing the web, he had an iPad and a computer, Buhain said, and it seemed like Pretrial Services officers didn't care. Pretrial Services did not respond to requests for comment. "They would've found stuff if they really looked," Buhain said. He added that he quit the job after about six months. When he quit, Buhain said, "I never had to give a report to the feds." He added: "They never did any kind of debriefing or nothing." Defense lawyers have pushed back on several aspects of the prosecutors' case, including the lack of transparency about Francis' release conditions. Bob Boyce, a lawyer for a former naval officer who is seeking a new trial in the Francis case, had mixed thoughts about Buhain's background. "It certainly would cause some concern. You'd want to investigate it a little more," he said. "But I don't know what qualifies or disqualifies someone from being a private security." Prosecutors and lawyers for Francis pointed Insider to public filings and declined to comment. <h2>Security-guard rules set a low bar</h2>Robert McCrie, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice who focuses on private-security companies, said Francis' escape showed the benefit of stricter regulations and experienced guards. Some states don't regulate security guards at all, he said, and others have bare-bones training requirements. "The majority of them are trained in eight hours or 16 hours," he said. "Honestly, that's a pathetic level of training." If judges didn't concern themselves with the details, he added, it "could not go well." Even trained and experienced guards have been accused of playing nice with their prosperous wards — who, after all, are the ones who sign their paychecks. When Ng Lap Seng, a real-estate tycoon eventually convicted of bribing two United Nations officials in New York, was in the care of guards from Guidepost Solutions, they improperly allowed a masseuse to visit him several times and drove him to Chinatown to get dinner, court documents said. Guidepost did not reply to requests for comment. Ruben <keyword id="23556008" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="weigand" source="keywords">Weigand</keyword>, who was convicted of helping sneak millions in marijuana transactions through the US banking system, made the unusual decision to use his private bail-sitters as character references, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16976912/310/united-states-v-weigand/">filing flattering letters</a> to the court when it was time to be sentenced. He "knows each and every one of us and asks how we are and how our families are and if we need anything," one wrote. "It was natural to strike up a bond with Mr. Weigand," another wrote. The judge in San Francisco seems to have put a greater emphasis on Lynch's security. He forced him to hire guards, even though <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-05-25/stroz-friedberg-builds-bodyguard-business-with-madoff-strauss-kahn-cases#xj4y7vzkg">prosecutors hadn't requested it</a>, and explicitly authorized his security company, Keelson Strategic, to use force if Lynch tried to bolt. Keelson didn't reply to emails seeking comment. When an Insider reporter recently swung by Lynch's home, there were no guards or cameras visible. There would be severe penalties if Lynch tried to make a break for it: If he somehow managed to escape, his $100 million bail would be forfeited. But he still has more freedom than the typical detainee. Earlier this month, a judge authorized him to join his daughters for day trips around San Francisco between the hours of 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. as long as two armed guards went everywhere with them. His bail conditions could also be changed. For the time being, Lynch is set to remain confined to a Pacific Heights mansion where, according to a real-estate agent's listing, he can look out and see Alcatraz in the distance.

Rich white-collar suspects are spending millions to turn their luxury homes into jails with 24/7 guards — and one has already escaped

<ul><li>The Forum Against Corruption And three employees based in Hyderabad have filed a case against IT giants — including <keyword id="28721" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Cognizant">Cognizant</keyword>, <keyword id="6370971" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="accenture">Accenture</keyword> and Caspex Corporation. </li><li>The Public Interest Litigation(PIL) has alleged the companies for bad leave policy, long working hours and poor incentives. </li><li>It also said that the “white collared slavery prevailing in the state in the name of employment should end,” The News Minute reported. </li><li>The government can only fine the IT companies of ₹100, if they break any law.</li></ul>Indian IT industry is facing flak from its employees over work-related exploitation. The long working hours and the lack of time to attend to personal needs have taken a toll on the sector’s employees. The Forum Against Corruption and three employees based in Hyderabad filed a case against IT giants — Cognizant, Accenture and Caspex Corporation — seeking improvement in work culture in companies and end employees exploitation, Vijay Gopal, President of the Forum Against Corruption <a href="https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/white-collared-slavery-accenture-cognizant-dragged-to-court-over-long-work-hours-leave-policy-4420871.html">told</a> Moneycontrol. The PIL alleged that the IT companies have a bad leave policy, long working hours and poor incentives. Business Insider India contacted them but could not receive their response at the time of publishing. The article will be updated as and when they respond. White collared slavery prevails in the state, say IT sector employees IT sector employees who cater to international clients clock in extra hours without overtime pay. They are also subjected to a 4-5 hours in commute. As per Telangana Shops and Establishments Act, 1988 companies cannot direct the employees to work over eight hours a day and overtime can be extended to a maximum of six hours a day. However, in 2002, the state government allowed the IT companies to overlook the labour laws — includes daily working hours, leaves and laws that protect employees. The PIL said that the “white collared slavery prevailing in the state in the name of employment should end,” The News Minute <a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/techies-drag-it-companies-court-over-long-work-hours-bad-leave-policies-108615">reported</a> citing the employees. The Telangana High Court directed the IT companies to respond to PIL within a month. It has also sent the notice to the Telangana state government. However, the government can only fine the IT companies of ₹100, if they break a law. See also: <a href="https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/www.businessinsider.in/cognizant-may-layoff-hundreds-of-employees-sitting-on-the-bench/amp_articleshow/70696484.cms">Cognizant may layoff hundreds of employees sitting on the bench</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/accenture-had-to-re-train-17000-indians-because-automation-ate-their-jobs/amp_articleshow/69823422.cms">Accenture had to re-train 17,000 employees because automation ate their jobs</a> <a href="https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/www.businessinsider.in/cognizant-to-hire-500-sales-professionals-to-boost-its-digital-technology-services/amp_articleshow/70954946.cms">Cognizant will hire 500 sales staff and looks to poach ‘disillusioned’ IBM employees</a>

Cognizant, Accenture and Caspex accused of 'white collar slavery' in a new lawsuit

<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image">Douglas Graham/CQ Roll Call/GettyDr. Ben Carson</div></div>Why some Republicans think a charismatic brain surgeon can win the White House.
Between now and the presidential primary season, expect to hear more about Ben Carson. Though unknown to many Americans, the retired brain surgeon is a conservative pin-up. He was raised by a black single mother in Detroit, almost flunked out of school and nearly stabbed a teenage rival to death, before finding God, heading to Yale and becoming a paediatric neurosurgeon. He has written several books about his life--one became a TV film (Dr Carson was played by Cuba Gooding junior).
Political celebrity came in 2013 when the doctor used a speech to a National Prayer Breakfast to lecture a stony-faced Barack Obama, sitting a few feet away, about the national debt, those who treat poverty as an excuse for failure and the "horrible" menace of political correctness. A Fox News TV contract followed, and many invitations to address conservative gatherings.
Fans want to draft Dr Carson to run for the presidency in 2016. They call him a citizen-statesman for an anti-politics age. They praise his philanthropy (he runs a scholarship fund for star pupils in poor schools), and his appeal to churchgoing, socially conservative voters of all races. Their idol has said that he might run "if the Lord grabbed me by the collar and made me". Some are willing to try more earthly interventions.
According to official filings, the recently-formed National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee (slogan: "Run Ben Run!") raised $1.2m dollars in the last two months of 2013. The committee, which operates without sanction from Dr Carson, boasts that it has raised another $1.6m since. The committee's co-founder, Vernon Robinson, makes an unblushing, race-based pitch. Democrats have scooped about 90% of the black vote in presidential elections since 2000, helping to offset a consistent Republican lead among whites. In 2016, argues Mr Robinson, Dr Carson has only to take 17% of the black vote and "Hillary loses every swing state in the country".
At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a three-day shindig attracting big-name Republicans that ended on March 8th, Dr Carson was given a prominent speaking slot. He drew cheers with a talk that delivered partisan attacks (eg, Obamacare is a "massive" government power-grab) in a paediatrician's mild tones (a favourite Carson insult is to call foes "dummies"). CPAC attracts a young crowd with a libertarian bent: think students in blazers and bow-ties, and pamphlets headed "How to debate your teacher (and win!)".
Still, Carson fans were excited when their man came third in a presidential straw poll of CPAC-goers, behind Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz but beating heavyweights such as Senator Marco Rubio, Governor Chris Christie and Representative Paul Ryan. It was a revealing moment, but not because Dr Carson can win the White House. To be clear, he will not even win the presidential nomination. His rise is interesting because of what it says about Republicans today.
Republicans have flirted before with self-made men from outside politics. Remember Herman Cain, the pizza tycoon whose folksy manner and populist tax plans propelled him to giddy heights in 2011, before sex scandals dragged him down and out of the presidential primaries? Dr Carson is no Herman Cain. Before the 2012 election Republican activists looked at a string of odd-bods and firebrands, casting about for someone, anyone, who thrilled them more than their eventual nominee, Mitt Romney.
This time Republicans seem more sober-minded. A bit unexpectedly, their current mood takes Lexington back to early 2004, and to (cold, snowy) memories of covering New Hampshire's Democratic presidential primary. Back then it was fractious Democrats who were united by their loathing of the sitting president--seeing George W. Bush as not just wrong-headed but un-American and dangerous. Yet even as Democrats told themselves that they represented America's true values, they were troubled by doubts about their ability to win overall majorities in a country that was stubbornly hostile to their arguments.
Their first response was to blame their opponents and the media for sowing division and fear (just as Republicans do today). Their second response was to fret about their bench of White House contenders--a line-up of lightweights, shrill partisans and ponderous elder statesmen.
Democrats sought a quick fix: candidates with sterling military records to reassure a nation at war. In the end that meant picking John Kerry, whose war service proved less helpful than hoped. But for a period, notably around New Hampshire's primary, wild hopes were pinned on Wesley Clark, a retired four-star general with no political experience.
<h3>The myth of the heroic outsider</h3>
A decade on, Republicans seem equally unconvinced by their likely presidential contenders, and Dr Carson has the makings of a new Wesley Clark: a successful man, unready for the blowtorch scrutiny of politics. Some of his views might startle his party: for example, he favours stiff tariffs on manufactured imports. And he is already proving thin-skinned. At CPAC, he accused the press of distorting what he had meant when he called Obamacare the worst thing to happen in America "since slavery", or when he seemed to equate gay-marriage advocates with child-molesters.
Republicans are bullish about November's mid-term elections, when turnouts are usually low and the electorate skews whiter, older and more conservative. However, the more thoughtful know that the race for the White House in 2016 will be far harder. Swelling ranks of non-white and younger voters have never enjoyed the American dream of rising living standards. Their pessimism poses a test for Republicans whose creed is that hard work leads to success, if government will only get out of the way.
Alas, too many conservatives--like Democrats in 2004--are too blinded by dislike of the president to grasp the limits of their own popularity. Hence their desire for quick fixes, as represented by folk like Dr Carson. But quick fixes seldom work.
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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="5183270" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Aunt-Jemima">Aunt Jemima</keyword> products are being renamed, parent company <keyword id="54572" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="PepsiCo">PepsiCo</keyword> announced Tuesday. </li><li>The syrup and pancake mix will now be under the Pearl Milling Company brand. </li><li><keyword id="6354616" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Twitter">Twitter</keyword> users had a variety of positive and negative reactions to the change. </li></ul>For around 130 years, the <a href="https://www.insider.com/after-130-years-aunt-jemima-will-vanish-from-packaging-2020-6">Aunt Jemima character</a> has served as the face of an eponymous supermarket syrup. On Tuesday, PepsiCo has announced a new name for the popular breakfast-food brand: Pearl Milling Company."Though new to store shelves, Pearl Milling Company was founded in 1888 in St. Joseph, Missouri, and was the originator of the iconic self-rising pancake mix that would later become known as Aunt Jemima," the company said in a press release <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/aunt-jemima-pancake-mix-rebrands-pearl-milling-company-says-pepsico-2021-2">reported by Insider</a>.This change has been in the making for a while. In June, the company announced it would be swapping out the original name because of its racist implications, stating that it was inspired by a minstrel song, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/aunt-jemima-is-changing-its-name-mascot-over-racial-stereotype-2020-6">Insider previously reported</a>.In a statement on the issue at the time, Kristin Kroepfl, the chief marketing officer of Quaker Foods North America (which is a subsidiary of PepsiCo and owns the Aunt Jemima brand), said the company "recognize[s] Aunt Jemima's origins are based on a racial stereotype." While <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-04-28-8904080069-story.html">this isn't the first time</a> the brand has gotten a makeover, it does mark the first time the brand has decided to let go of its name recognition altogether. Ahead of the 1989 update which saw a new hairstyle, pearl earrings, and a white shirt collar added to the the Aunt Jemima character's appearance, <keyword id="131044" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Quaker-Oats">Quaker Oats</keyword> then-spokesman Ron Bottrell said the name would remain the same because "that kind of familiarity and recognition is an invaluable asset.''But critics of the brand, like Riché Richardson who wrote about her opinion for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/06/24/besides-the-confederate-flag-what-other-symbols-should-go/can-we-please-finally-get-rid-of-aunt-jemima">The New York Times</a> back in 2015, have been calling for the company to fully replace the name and logo for years.Now that PepsiCo has finally unveiled Aunt Jemima's new name, syrup-lovers are taking to Twitter to share their feelings about the change.<h2>Many think Aunt Jemima's new name could've been better</h2>There are some critics on Twitter who think PepsiCo should have picked a different name or at least changed the color scheme more, saying the new packaging looks like a "generic knockoff" of Aunt Jemima. Others were happy that the brand moved away from its racist packaging but thought "Pearl Milling Company" sounded like a fake company.Many said they'll still be on the lookout for the original Aunt Jemima packaging regardless of the name change.<h2>Others mocked the timing of the name change</h2>Some Twitter users also wrote about how they don't believe this change will do much to "solve" racism in America and drew attention to the irony of this announcement coming during Black History Month.At least one Twitter user accused the company of using racism as a "marketing tool." <h2>Some took the opportunity to argue whether or not they found the Aunt Jemima packaging offensive in the first place </h2>Some Twitter users wrote that they never found the brand name or character offensive to begin with and suggested the company ought to "poll the affected group" before making changes like this.But others pointed out how a small step like this can still be a catalyst for larger change, noting that some people did feel uncomfortable with the packaging based on a racist stereotype and saying that having less racist iconography in the world is always a good thing. To learn more about how the history of Aunt Jemima's original logo is rooted in racial stereotypes and slavery, check out Insider reporter Jessica Snouwaert's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/aunt-jemima-history-logo-changed-6-times-rooted-racial-stereotypes-2020-6">timeline of how the Aunt Jemima brand has evolved</a> over the last 130 years.

Aunt Jemima was finally rebranded to move away from its racially insensitive packaging, but some people are criticizing how it was changed

<ul><li><keyword id="28721" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Cognizant">Cognizant</keyword> is planning to layoff staff. As many as 7,000 mid level and senior level jobs are on the line. </li><li>Another 6,000 jobs may also be affected, globally as the IT major plans to close down its content moderation services. </li><li>Cognizant posted a quarterly revenue of $4.25 billion, 4.2% up from last year.</li></ul>American technology multinational Cognizant is expected to lay off hundreds of employees to cut costs. According to an ET <a href="https://m.economictimes.com/tech/ites/cognizant-to-cut-7000-mid-senior-level-jobs-exit-content-moderation/articleshow/71829299.cms">report</a>, as many as 7,000 mid and senior level jobs are on the line — accounting for 2% of its workforce. As many as 5,000 employees will be redeployed into other job roles. “To improve cost structure to partially fund these investments and advance Cognizant’s growth agenda, it has made the decision to remove approximately 10,000-12,000 mid-to-senior level associates worldwide from their current roles in coming quarters. The gross reduction is expected to lead to a net reduction of approximately 5,000 to 7,000 roles as the company aims to reskill and redeploy approximately 5,000 of the total associates impacted,” Karen McLoughlin, CFO, Cognizant said. Given the job cuts, the company expects to save up to $500 million in the next two years Another 6,000 jobs may also be affected globally as the IT major plans to close down its content moderation services — including social media platforms like <keyword id="6354576" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="facebook">Facebook</keyword>. It will exit the services focussed on identifying objectionable content, keeping in mind the mental health of moderators, the company said. “Exiting this area will impact an additional approximately 6,000 roles worldwide, though the company intends to work with its partners to explore ways to transition the roles to alternative vendors, thereby reducing the impact to associates,” ET <a href="https://m.economictimes.com/tech/ites/cognizant-to-cut-7000-mid-senior-level-jobs-exit-content-moderation/articleshow/71829299.cms">reported</a> citing company executives. The closure of content moderation services will also impact its communications, media and technology verticals. “Cognizant is aligning with clients’ digital imperatives, and doubling down on four key areas — Data, Digital Engineering, Cloud and Internet of Things (IoT),” the company noted. The company posted a 4.2% increase in its third quarterly revenue at $4.25 billion, as compared to the same period last year. It also witnessed a $20 million jump in its net income at $497 million, compared to $477 million last year. At the same time, it is trying to boost revenues by tightening travel budgets, and increasing variable pay. In 2018, Cognizant also introduced a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/cognizant-begins-voluntary-separation-program-for-senior-staff-report/articleshow/69515809.cms">voluntary separation </a>programme for senior executives. Under this, it offered 12-month salary and stock benefits depending on the employee’s tenure in the organisation. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/news/h-1b-visa-rejection-rates-rise-sharply-30-of-cognizant-capgemini-accenture-wipro-and-infosys-applications-denied/articleshow/71821596.cms">H-1B visa rejection rates rise sharply — 30% of Cognizant, Capgemini, Accenture, Wipro and Infosys applications denied</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/case-against-accenture-cognizant-caspex-for-bad-leave-policy-and-long-working-hours/articleshow/71074536.cms">Cognizant, Accenture and Caspex accused of 'white collar slavery' in a new lawsuit</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/cognizant-to-hire-500-sales-professionals-to-boost-its-digital-technology-services/articleshow/70954946.cms">Cognizant will hire 500 sales staff and looks to poach ‘disillusioned’ IBM employees</a>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div><ul><li>Prime Minister Theresa May called on investors to put pressure on technology companies.</li><li>But investors said that May's speech was "lazy" and "disappointing."</li><li>An economist called it "ridiculous" and "embarrassing."</li></ul> LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May said in her speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/theresa-may-davos-speech-social-media-home-for-terrorists-and-paedophiles-2018-1">that technology investors should "put pressure" on tech companies</a> to crack down on terrorists and criminals using their products."These companies simply cannot stand by while their platforms are used to facilitate child abuse, modern slavery or the spreading of terrorist and extremist content," May said."Earlier this month a group of shareholders demanded that Facebook and Twitter disclose more information about sexual harassment, fake news, hate speech and other forms of abuse that take place on the companies' platforms."Investors can make a big difference here by ensuring trust and safety issues are being properly considered. And I urge them to do so."One technology investor who wanted to remain anonymous simply sent an eyeroll emoji when asked for their reaction to May's speech.Rob Kniaz, founding partner at Hoxton Ventures, which has backed companies including Deliveroo and Babylon, said that "I think it's lazy to blame tech companies rather than pursuing criminals directly."Certainly they will continue to communicate through new channels as soon as old ones are shut," Kniaz said, "and it's the responsibility of the police and politicians to create and enforce laws to stop them. There are plenty of tools today to do so."And Nic Brisbourne, managing partner of London-based VC firm Forward Partners which has backed companies including Thread and Zopa, called May's speech "disappointing.""I appreciate the Prime Minister's point of view on the seminal moment we currently find ourselves at in terms of emerging technology, particularly the huge advances we're seeing in AI," Brisbourne said. "However, it's disappointing to see such focus placed on the negatives that these technologies can present, rather than the huge advances they can help us achieve as a society.""There is good and bad in these developments, as with every advance in technology and in other areas, but the one thing we can say for sure is that change &amp; innovation will happen. The really game changing development of true 'human level' artificial intelligence is some way off. What we have in the short term is narrow AI which can improve productivity and drive growth on a massive scale, but will also have unintended side effects, of which the polarising effect of Facebook is a good example."Our job as a society is to embrace the good and try to limit the bad. If we try to reject AI then developments and the startups that exploit them will simply happen elsewhere, making our UK based companies less competitive and the country poorer as a result."Dennis Snower, president of the&#xa0;Kiel Institute for the World Economy think tank, wasn't impressed with May's speech either:May also focused on the benefits and potential setbacks of artificial intelligence.&#xa0;"It is a test that I am confident we can meet. For right across the long sweep of history from the invention of electricity to advent of factory production, time and again initially disquieting innovations have delivered previously unthinkable advances and we have found the way to make those changes work for all our people."As we seize technology so we have to shape it so it works for everyone," she said.Martin Goodson, CEO of British artificial intelligence company Evolution AI, said that he was "glad fears of mass unemployment were not overblown."Here's Goodson's full comment:"We welcome May's reiteration of her commitment to support the AI industry via the industrial strategy.Her emphasis on the development of ethical artificial intelligence is also positive. Far from being a brake on growth, we see this as a commercial opportunity. For instance, our company have received government funding to develop technology for explainable AI, which is AI that can explain the decisions it makes. Imagine you develop AI that has the power to refuse bank loans to people based on their previous behaviour: it's critical that such technology has the ability to explain its decisions.I'm glad fears of mass unemployment were not overblown. Look at the the last 70 years. This period saw the invention of the handheld mechanical calculator, then electronic calculators, followed by desktop computers. Far from being decimated, white collar employment grew enormously over this time."<div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/coolest-gadgets-ces-2018-technology-tv-robotic-umbrella-laptop-phone-2018-1">The coolest gadgets we saw at CES 2018</a></h3> <div> </div> </div></hr>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesJeff Bezos, Amazon's CEO, is seeing his reputation take a dive.</div></div></div><ul><li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/amazon">Amazon</a> has been bombarded by negative press, with <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-prime-day-boycott-protest-2018-7">calls for boycott</a> flooding social media on <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/amazon-prime-day">Prime Day</a>, the company's biggest shopping day of the year. </li><li>Amid backlash over the treatment and pay of Amazon's workers, CEO and founder <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/jeff-bezos">Jeff Bezos</a> became the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-jeff-bezos-bill-gates-net-worth-2018-7">richest man in modern history on Monday</a>.</li><li>As shopping increasingly shifts online, the biggest player in e-commerce is in a prime position to become the biggest villain in American capitalism. </li></ul> As Americans become <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-prime-keeps-adding-perks-2018-5">increasingly reliant on Amazon</a>, the company's reputation is evolving in a dark direction. On Prime Day, <a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/amzn-stock">Amazon's</a> largest shopping day of the year, the company was <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-prime-day-boycott-protest-2018-7">bombarded with calls for boycott.</a> Hundreds of consumers took to social media to urge customers not to shop on the website during the 36-hour event, which took place on Monday and Tuesday. Amazon workers in Spain and Poland <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-prime-day-boycott-protest-2018-7">went on strike on Monday</a> to protest against working conditions at its warehouses. Thousands more did the same in Germany on Tuesday.Amid this backlash over the treatment and pay of Amazon's workers, CEO and founder Jeff Bezos became the richest man in modern history on Monday, with his <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-jeff-bezos-bill-gates-net-worth-2018-7">net worth topping $150 billion</a>. Sen. Bernie Sanders <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1019002474445799431">tweeted</a>: "Jeff Bezo's [sic] newly renovated home in Washington DC will have 25 bathrooms. Meanwhile, Amazon workers skip bathroom breaks in order to meet their grueling work targets."This <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-is-the-new-walmart-2017-8">isn't a new problem for Amazon</a>. But, as the company grows, workers' complaints multiply, and Bezos gets even more unfathomably rich, it doesn't seem to be one that is going away any time soon. <h2>Amazon is increasingly being vilified</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Amazon/photos/a.10150354146103124.344011.9465008123/10156093724778124/?type=3&amp;theater">Facebook.com/Amazon</a>A super-sized Amazon box, erected to hype Prime Day.</div></div></div><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-is-the-new-walmart-2017-8">Amazon's threat to small businesses</a> was one of the first strikes against the company in some people's minds. The mere rumor that Amazon is entering a new industry can impact major companies' stocks. For mom-and-pop businesses, it is <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/fishs-eddy-amazon-window-display-walmart-comparisons-2017-8">easy to feel like a dying breed in the age of Amazon.</a> On the left, an online anti-Trump movement has been encouraging people to boycott Amazon until the e-commerce giant bans Trump-related products, cuts ads from the far-right website Breitbart News, and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-vs-walmart-gun-control-hq2-2018-3">stops streaming NRATV.</a> Amazon is one of Sanders' top examples of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-amazon-is-too-big-2018-4">a company that has become too powerful.</a>Meanwhile, President Donald Trump himself has repeatedly attacked Amazon, arguing that the company has an unfair deal with the US Postal Service. Trump supporters threatened to boycott Amazon after news broke that it would support Washington State in a federal lawsuit challenging Trump's executive order barring people from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US. The search for HQ2 has helped put a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/seattle-before-and-after-amazon-south-lake-union-2018-2">microscope on Amazon's local impact.</a> Skyrocketing housing prices, unrelenting traffic, and overcrowding has inspired residents to dub Seattle "Amageddon" following Amazon's dominance. Local businesses have been forced out as prices increase and Amazon headquarters expand into "Amazonia."In response to criticism, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/koch-brother-linked-group-runs-amazon-hq2-ad-2018-2">Amazon has touted</a> its investments in Seattle and how the HQ2 deal could pay off for the city that becomes home to its second headquarters.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Reuters/Lucas JacksonA worker in an Amazon warehouse.</div></div></div>Perhaps most damning are reports from Amazon workers. While Amazon has been applauded for its<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employee-benefits-2017-8"> impressive benefits,</a> the company has also been plagued with stories of white-collar workers dealing with a brutal working environment in which people cry at their desks after being <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employee-benefits-2017-8">pushed to their breaking point.</a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-workers-share-their-horror-stories-2018-4?r=UK&amp;IR=T"></a>Warehouse workers have protested long hours and allegedly poor working conditions. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-workers-share-their-horror-stories-2018-4?r=UK&amp;IR=T">Employees told Business Insider earlier this year</a> that they were constantly under surveillance while working in Amazon warehouses with intense targets. Stories include dealing with an "awful smell" coming from warehouse trash cans, which workers used because they were afraid of missing targets if they took the time to go to the bathroom."The metrics are brutally aggressive, and most of my colleagues are in a state of constant anxiety that we could be fired at any moment for not meeting metrics," one current US employee said.The employee added: "Amazon needs union representation globally. It is modern slavery. Jeff Bezos has become the richest man in the world off the backs of people so desperate for work that we tolerate the abuse.""Amazon is proud to have created over 130,000 new jobs in the last year alone," the company said of its warehouses in a statement to Business Insider on Monday. "These are good jobs with highly competitive pay and full benefits.""We use our Connections program to ask associates a question every day about how we can make things even better, we develop new processes and technology to make the roles in our facilities more ergonomic and comfortable for our associates, and we investigate any allegation we are made aware of and fix things that are wrong," the statement continued.<h2>The new Walmart </h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Jose F. Moreno / AP ImagesWalmart.</div></div></div>Amazon isn't the only company to face criticism for its CEO's wealth or its treatment of workers. However, because it is such a visible company - with the richest CEO - it becomes a target for criticism that could be applied to many retailers. In this way, Amazon is in a similar position that Walmart was in the 1990s and early 2000s. Like Amazon, Walmart has been trashed for its impact on small businesses, <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/18/walmart-political-contributions_n_3461267.html">its political</a> <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/walmart-takes-a-stand-on-guns-gay-rights-to-get-people-to-like-it-more-1530805106">actions and inaction</a>, and its working conditions. However, in recent years, the company has made a concentrated effort to change consumers' perceptions. The company raised its minimum wage and started sustainability initiatives. Leadership is speaking out on progressive political issues, with the Wall Street Journal publishing an article earlier in July with the headline: <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/walmart-takes-a-stand-on-guns-gay-rights-to-get-people-to-like-it-more-1530805106">"Walmart Takes a Stand on Guns, Gay Rights to Get People to Like It More."</a> According to CEO Doug McMillon, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-reputation-improvement-warning-for-amazon-2018-2">Walmart made a concentrated effort to change its reputation.</a> The company's strategy became: "Let's find the people who dislike us the most and go figure out why, and see if there's some good in what they're saying - and then implement it." Amazon has pushed back against many of the criticisms against it, arguing that the company is ultimately a force for good. While Amazon may be addressing issues internally, the rest of the world's conception of Amazon is already shifting.Amazon is being attacked from all angles. 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