For profit health care providers are selling your private health care information. Remember what started the opioid epidemic? Big Pharma pushing it's drugs at targeted doctors, who then targeted their patients- creating addicts. (Sackler family, you should be in prison for this.) Anyway, it's happening again. #healthcare #forprofit #immoral
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/private-clinics-in-canada-are-selling-personal-health-data-study/
#ForProfit
#ChatGPT maker #OpenAI will remain under the control of its founding #nonprofit board, after abandoning its plan to split off its commercial ops as a #ForProfit company.
Fmr employees & #ElonMusk, a co-founder of OpenAI who later split w/ its leaders, had criticized the restructuring plan, saying it would remove important oversight of its #ArtificialIntelligence #technology. #Musk filed a lawsuit seeking to block the plan; the suit is still ongoing.
#law #tech #business
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/05/openai-restructures-abandons-plan-profit/
Seitenwechsler:innen als Chance? Da nun sicher ist, dass die #Koalition aus #CDU #SPD #CSU kommt, ist auch sicher, dass Menschen aus Wirtschaftsunternehmen für die Union Minister:innen werden. Einige befürchten da #Interessenkonflikte. Andere antworten: Aberaberaber wenn sie aus #NGO kämen, wie zuvor #Agora, na?
Dann: Wäre das Problem anders, vielleicht sogar keines. Wirtschaft ist #ForProfit. Ihr Zweck ist finanzieller Gewinn - für sich. NGO=#zivilgesellschaft|liche Organisationen, meist #gemeinnützig, arbeiten #selbstlos. Mit Interessen. Aber zur Förderung der Allgemeinheit, explizit nicht zum wirtschaftlichen Vorteil ihrer Mitglieder, Angestellten oder Finanziers. Und meistens gehören sie in dem Sinne niemandem. Wäre dieser Unterschied common sense, wären wir weiter.
Americans doctors have many reasons for wanting to practise in Canada. The Medical Council of Canada recently reported a nearly 600% increase in U.S.educated doctors signing up for its physician application portal. Over 34% of every dollar is spent on administration in the US, compared to 17% in Canada overall and less than 3% in our public insurance plans. #medicine #doctors #forprofit #canada
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/why-american-doctors-are-approaching-me-about-moving-to-canada/article_8f61a50a-5bf9-478c-b240-26ba1000b43f.html
Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-bill-that-would-have-blocked
#HackerNews #OpenAI #Bill #ForProfit #Politics #Technology #News
@isotopp nothing new tbh.
The #USA has a #ForProfit #PrisonIndustry which results in the highest incarceration rate in the world, even if we assume everyone else underreports their numbers by 100%...
The #ACA / #Obamacare is a popular but not overwhelmingly popular system (60% popularity). It left a lot of the problems with the #private, #forprofit #US #medical system intact and is vulnerable to #farright attacks.
Only 8% of #Democrats oppose #MedicareForAll, yet no Dem politicians pursue it. Ask why.
Reminder: This was the #RonaldReagan #Healthcare Plan made by the #Heritage Foundation who would then make #Project2025!
"Charging people in prison to communicate with the outside world has long been good business."
Katya Schwenk for The Lever: https://longreads.com/2025/03/21/the-succession-battle-for-a-prison-empire/
#Longreads #Investigation #Corruption #Incarceration #Prisons #Jails #ForProfit #Business
This year, #GEOgroup & Washington are back in court — for a third time — as the company tries to reverse the earlier decision that sided w/the state. #GEO has brought in contract cleaners at the Tacoma facility while the case plays out, keeping detainees there from *paid* work & from having a way to earn commissary money.
#immigration #law #Slavery #forprofit #prison #Trump #HumanRights
At the 1,575-bed detention center GEO runs for #ICE in Tacoma, Washington, detainees once prepared meals, washed laundry & scrubbed toilets, doing jobs that would otherwise require 85 full-time employees…. The state’s #MinimumWage at the time was $11 an hour. (It’s now $16.66.) In 2017, Washington sued GEO to enforce it, & in Oct 2021 a federal jury ruled unanimously in the state’s favor.
#immigration #law #Slavery #forprofit #prison #GEOGroup #Trump
The #forprofit #prison company #GEOGroup has surged in value under #Trump. Investors are betting big on #immigration #detention. Its stock price doubled after Election Day.
But despite its soaring fortunes, the $4B company continues to resist having to pay detainees >$1 a day for cleaning facilities where the government has forced them to live.
#law #Slavery
https://www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage
#Ice #detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a #business. These facilities are privately owned and run #forprofit.
Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560mfrom Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney
Update. "#DOGE order leads to journal cancellations by U.S. agricultural library"
https://www.science.org/content/article/doge-order-leads-journal-cancellations-u-s-agricultural-library
"The #USDA on Friday told staff members it has canceled subscriptions carried by its National Agricultural Library as part of a drive by President Donald #Trump’s administration to cut federal spending. The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including many prominent in various agricultural subfields —but curiously none from the world’s three largest scientific publishers, all of which are #ForProfit. USDA staff members depicted the move as hasty, indiscriminate slashing…Studies of journal subscription fees indicate that on average, scientific #SocietyPublishers charge less than such for-profit companies."
PS: (1) Of course the best ag research should be #OpenAccess. But that's a goal, not the current reality, and while we work for that goal, policymaking agencies still need access the best research. (2) If efficiency requires budget cuts, why focus the cuts on journals from #nonprofit #publishers, which on average are lower in price and higher in quality?
Cynthia Dizikes & Joaquin Palomino: #California is embracing psychiatric #hospitals again. Behind locked doors, a profit-driven system is destroying lives
#gift #psychiatry #mentalhealth #forprofit
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/california-psychiatric-hospitals-crisis/?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL3Byb2plY3RzLzIwMjUvY2FsaWZvcm5pYS1wc3ljaGlhdHJpYy1ob3NwaXRhbHMtY3Jpc2lzLw==&time=MTc0MTE5ODU5ODUyMA==&rid=OThlYmM0MTctMDQ2Yy00NjM5LWJiYzItNDY0MzMxOTcwNWJj&sharecount=OA==
»#Judge denies #Musk attempt to block #OpenAI from becoming #forprofit.« https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/judge-denies-musk-attempt-to-block-openai-from-becoming-for-profit-.html?eicker.news #tech #media
#Firefighting Fire Sale
After #US #ForestService #layoffs, will #forprofit contractors protect you from #wildfires?
Like many of 3,400 Forest Service abruptly fired by #DOGE, Kloetzel’s permanent job offer last spring had come with a 1 year “probationary” period, with fewer job protections. Since he lives in Forest Service housing, he also lost his housing. Altogether, around quarter of the ranger district’s employees were fired. “It’s a bitter pill to swallow,” he says.
https://www.levernews.com/the-firefighting-fire-sale/
OpenAI widerspricht Musks Übernahmeangebot und sieht Widerspruch zu laufender Klage
Elon Musks Versuch, OpenAI zu übernehmen, steht nach Ansicht des KI-Unternehmens in direktem Widerspruch zu seiner laufen
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/openai-widerspricht-musks-uebernahmeangebot-und-sieht-widerspruch-zu-laufender-klage/
#KI #News #chatGPT #ElonMusk #forprofit #GemeinntzigeOrganisation #KIRegulierung #KIbernahme #KnstlicheIntelligenz #OpenAI #SamAltman #TechnologieWirtschaft #xAI
"Groups like Thorn use everything they can to put this legislation forward, not just because they feel that this is the way forward to combat sexual child abuse, but also because they have a commercial interest in doing so."—Arda Gerkens (ATKM) >
#CSAR #lack of #transparency #BigBrother #FalsePositives #ForProfit #hypocrites #pedocriminality #surveillance #PrivateLobbies #YlvaJohannson #Technocracy #lobbying #EuropeanCommission #regulation #spying #privacy #PrivacyProtection #ChildAbuse #ChildProtection #Techbros #profit #ConflictOfInterest #ignorance #technology #tech #Eurocrats #BigBusiness #NGOs #PrivateLobby #CommercialInterests #screening #CitizenFiling #Snap #Palantir #AshtonKutcher = #Abusers for #MassSurveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #PrivacyRights
»#OpenAI needs 'more #capital than we’d imagined,' moves to #forprofit: its existing for-profit division will become a public benefit corporation, or #PBC, “with ordinary shares of stock.”« https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/openai-needs-more-capital-than-wed-imagined-moves-to-for-profit.html?eicker.news #tech #media
@The_Caretaker
In the world of #AI its hard to tell if this is true or just a useful parable but sure does ring true given the sorry state of the #healthCare system in the US and the #forProfit prison system.
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