Media Database
>
Johana Bhuiyan

Johana Bhuiyan

Technology Reporter at Los Angeles Times

Contact this person
Email address
j*****@*******.comGet email address
Influence score
60
Phone
(XXX) XXX-XXXX Get mobile number
Location
United States
Languages
  • English
Covering topics
  • Computers & Technology

View more media outlets and journalists by signing up to Prowly

View latest data and reach out all from one place
Sign up for free

Recent Articles

latimes.com

LAPD launches investigation into officers’ relationship with Ring

The Los Angeles Police Department has launched an internal investigation into its officers' communications with Ring, after a Times report revealed the camera maker provided officers with free devices or discounts and encouraged them to promote the products to colleagues and members of the…
latimes.com

LAPD officers got free swag from Ring, some promoted its cameras to...

Ring provided at least 100 LAPD officers with free devices or discounts and encouraged them to endorse and recommend its doorbell and security cameras to police and members of the public.
latimes.com

This is what happens when ICE asks Google for your user information

If you want to stop Google from providing your personal information to authorities who have issued an administrative subpoena, you need to act fast.
latimes.com

Clearview AI uses your online photos to instantly ID you. That’s a ...

By scraping the web for photos and extracting unique biometric information, Clearview AI violates privacy and chills protected political speech, a lawsuit says.
latimes.com

Major camera company can sort people by race, alert police when it ...

Facial recognition software developed by Dahua, a Chinese video surveillance firm sanctioned by the U.S., purports to detect the race of individuals caught on camera and offers to alert police clients when it identifies members of the Turkic ethnic group Uighurs.
latimes.com

Facial recognition may help find Capitol rioters — but it could har...

Normalizing surveillance tactics that have been used disproportionately on Black and brown communities may have big consequences, activists and academics warn.
latimes.com

Amazon will pay $61.7 million to delivery drivers after withholding...

Amazon’s settlement with the FTC comes nearly two years after the Los Angeles Times first exposed its tip-withholding practices.
latimes.com

Unfair ratings cost some Instacart shoppers hundreds a week. Here’s...

Instacart shoppers with higher ratings get first pick of orders. Those with lower ratings earn less, even when the ratings aren’t fair, shoppers say.
latimes.com

Muslims reel over a prayer app that sold user data: 'A betrayal fro...

The Muslim Pro app has features that make it easier to practice Islam. But revelations about its data collection have upset some users.
latimes.com

Instacart shoppers say they face unforgiving metrics: ‘It’s a very ...

Shoppers say its Instacart’s policies often ignore the realities of the job, leaving them in constant fear of termination over things out of their control.
latimes.com

News Analysis: Uber and Lyft might halt California operations over ...

A temporary closure of Uber in California might seem like a big blow to the company, but it could help sway voter opinion over a ballot measure.
latimes.com

Thousands of cars protest in caravan through Oakland

A procession of thousands of cars snaked through Oakland on Sunday to demand justice for the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota.
latimes.com

The coronavirus crisis has been great for Instacart. For its worker...

Demand for Instacart’s grocery deliveries has put new strains on the company’s shoppers, who say they have little to show for risking their health.
latimes.com

Uber shuts downtown L.A. office, laying off about 80

With little warning, Uber notified about 80 customer support workers in its Downtown L.A. office that it was offshoring their jobs to an office in Manila.
latimes.com

Bernie Sanders rallies Bay Area supporters, battles Bloomberg - Los...

Bernie Sanders rallies supporters in California and continues his battle with billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
latimes.com

The Google walkout: What protesters demanded and what they got

On Nov. 1, 2018, some 20,000 Google employees walked off the job in protest of the company’s handling of sexual harassment allegations, sparking a wave of tech worker protests that’s been gathering force ever since. Here are the protest organizers’ public demands, and Google’s responses (or non-responses). An end to forced arbitration for everyone — including temporary workers and contractors — and a right to bring a co-worker into every HR meeting. Making arbitration optional for individual cas…
latimes.com

How the Google walkout transformed tech workers into activists

When 20,000 Google employees walked out in protest a year ago, it birthed a new era of tech workers banding together to influence their companies’ actions.
latimes.com

GitHub is trying to quell employee anger over its ICE contract. It’...

GitHub’s announced donation to help communities affected by Trump immigration policies was a peace offering of sorts. But tensions inside the software firm are still high.
latimes.com

Amazon ends practice of dipping into drivers’ tips to meet their wa...

The Times has confirmed that the company will no longer use supplemental earnings or tips to cover the minimum pay, and will pay drivers their promised minimum out of the company’s own pocket.
latimes.com

Scooter start-up promised to serve a whole city. Then it cut out tw...

Like 11 other dockless e-scooter companies, Scoot Networks was eager to obtain a coveted permit to do business in San Francisco.
latimes.com

Los Angeles Uber drivers join cities across the U.S. in strike ahea...

It was a protest that dealt Uber its biggest blow.