Sentences with phrase «recent public scandals»

It's unlikely all these issues will be remedied within a week, particularly since Kalanick's focus is divided between the company's autonomous efforts and its recent public scandals.

Not exact matches

But unlike other recent public appearances, he did not start off with an apology for the company's recent privacy scandal.

A wave of recent scandals at the state - run Chinese Red Cross, which suggested a young staffer had bought luxuries such as a villa and lamborghini with donations, sparked public interest in greater regulation of the non-profit sector.

Can shareholders of Bank of America, Citigroup, or JPMorgan learn anything about their potential exposure to the burgeoning LIBOR - fixing scandal from the banks» most recent public disclosures?

However, in light of recent high - profile food scandals — such as exploding watermelons and melamine - tainted infant formula — there is understandably a lot of public opposition and mistrust towards «freaky» GM foods and China's agri - chem / agricultural technology sectors in general.

The ride - hail company has recently seen a parade of executives leave the company — either after being fired or resigning — and has suffered through a series of public scandals, the most recent of which involved an executive obtaining the medical records of a rape victim in India.

Much of the damage that has been done to Catholicism in recent decades — by the abuse scandals, by the ongoing horror stories of mid-twentieth century Catholic life in Ireland, by forms of intellectual dissent that empty Catholicism of the patrimony of truth bequeathed to it by the Lord, by the counter-witness of Catholics in public life who fail to stand firm for the dignity of the human person at all stages of life and in all conditions of life — is a matter of self - imposed wounds, which Church authorities have an obligation to address.

Although the introduction of the UK Bribery Act has no doubt improved the UK's ranking since 2010, recent events such as the phone hacking scandal have shown that there are still too many areas of corruption vulnerability in the UK public sector.

The «Truth in Spending» legislation (bill # pending) is a response to the numerous public corruption scandals that have rocked the state Capitol to its core over recent months through lack of transparency in budget allocations, due to shadow spending where some leaders and members gamed the system.

The legislation, which is being drafted, is a response to the numerous public corruption scandals that have rocked the state Capitol to its core over recent months.

The recent scandals focusing on Governor Paterson have drawn Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch into the public's view, and more voters have formed an opinion about his job performance.

Nick Clegg said the recent data loss «scandals» had created a lack of public confidence in the government's ability to look after personal information.

The steps were taken to address recent problems plaguing the public housing system, including a lead paint scandal and problems with boilers and heating systems that left 300,000 people without heat and hot water during the winter.

Following the rightful public concern over the recent slate of scandals, the governor took action.»

And recent headlines were dominated by allegations of a sexting scandal between Mangano and a public relations executive who received a pair of no - bid county contracts.

In fact, very little of the bill had anything to do with the recent corruption scandals or even public officials.

Governor Cuomo and the state's district attorneys are pushing for laws to make it easier to prosecute bribery and public corruption cases, in the wake of recent scandals in Albany.

Responding to recent scandals at public - job sites, Milwaukee aldermen signed off Tuesday on a series of policies that could eventually change the way contractors do business with the city.

In response to the devolving condition of New York's public housing and the recent lead paint inspection scandal, the federal government is taking a firm stance.

A spate of public sex harassment scandals in recent years has led to some progress, including better prevention training, but much more needs to be done, she said.

New York Governor Cuomo and the state's district attorneys are pushing for laws to make it easier to prosecute bribery and public corruption cases, in the wake of recent scandals in Albany.

After years of positive press and lavish praise from reformers, the District of Columbia Public Schools have faced a series of scandals in recent years.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).

The legislative action comes in the wake of a series of CPS scandals — including recent Chicago Sun - Times reports on filthy public schools.

Here, even before the recent sex scandal allegations, Johnson has insinuated that Cosby's paternal public image was invented.

(Other high - profile scandals in Austria's public arts sector in recent years were discussed by Matthias Dusini in frieze.)

However as the recent scandal in the UK concerning the hacking of phones of celebrities, the bereaved etc shows, the public interest is not always the same thing as that which interests the public.

My reason for this is that the recent scandal means the public are much more aware of the way that Facebook earns its revenue from exporting their information to third parties and how this data, particularly in bulk, can be capitalised on.

The recent scandal over misogynist and racist emails exchanged between Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices and attorneys here in Pennsylvania demonstrates how important a diverse bench is to the public's ability to have confidence in justice system.

Dr Lawrence McNamara, deputy director of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, writing in this week's NLJ, said the levels of public perception of corruption were «not out of kilter» with other common law countries, and could be explained by recent scandals in Parliament, the BBC and other institutions.

Ready Player One in not wrong to suggest that we should be skeptical of corporations like IOI, which wants to gain control of the OASIS in order to datamine its customers and bombard everyone's headsets with targeted advertisements (the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal is the latest reminder that Silicon Valley works for shareholders, not the public interest).

The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal has proven that Facebook Inc. has some serious user privacy issues, and Facebook's public...

But the recent scandal over Cambridge Analytica's allegedly unauthorized harvesting of Facebook data and a series of leaks linked to India's biometric database has refocused the public's attention on digital privacy.