Merge 104.8 | 13 August 2023
The US state of Illinois has just passed a bill that gives financial protection to children whose parents make money posting videos of them on social media. These children are known as influencers because the videos are intended to generate interest. If a child is featured in at least 30% of a revenue-generating video during a 30-day period, the child is entitled to a share of the revenue.
A woman in Australia has been fired from her job after her company used keystroke technology to see whether she had been working her designated hours when she was working from home. A review found she didn’t work her rostered hours for 44 days, started late on 47 days, finished early on 29 days, and performed zero hours of work on four days.
A Tesla car that was written off in an accident in the U.S. late last year has suddenly came back to life and has been sending notifications to the phone of its former owner. The car’s computer system was suddenly online thousands of miles away. But how? It was discovered the spare parts of the totaled car had been shipped to Ukraine and the owner of the restored vehicle logged in to the previous owners Spotify account.