ALL THE MONEY NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW | | | | | | Daniel de Visé | Personal Finance Reporter
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Is the local Starbucks too noisy? |
The coffee giant is working to reduce noise inside its stores through technological renovations as part of a larger effort to advance accessibility, Anthony Robledo reports. |
The chain plans to add acoustic dampening baffles or foams in the ceilings for all new U.S. locations and about 1,000 renovated ones, a Starbucks spokesperson told USA TODAY. |
Noise reduction will also improve order accuracy and the overall customer experience, Bloomberg reported. Employees sometimes struggle to hear orders correctly. |
Is Target covertly collecting face and fingerprint scans? |
An Illinois woman has filed a lawsuit accusing Target of illegally collecting and storing customers' biometric data through facial recognition technology and other means without their consent. |
The lawsuit, filed March 11 in a Cook County circuit court and published by local outlet Fox 32, alleges Target's surveillance systems covertly collect things like face and fingerprint scans from customers as part of its anti-theft efforts. The alleged practice violates a law the Illinois legislature passed in 2008 to protect people from exactly that sort of thing. |
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On a cold January night before the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump traveled to Rochester, a city of blue-collar, culturally conservative voters who swung his way in 2016 and again in 2020. |
"We will terminate every diversity, equity and inclusion program across the entire federal government," the former president declared to a packed auditorium. |
It was more than just a popular applause line at Trump rallies. Behind the scenes, a coalition of dozens of conservative groups is preparing to make Trump's words a reality. |
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