介绍： The California Trucking Association launched a legal challenge against the state’s new law giving wage and benefit protections to independent contractors. The rules are aimed at workers in the gig economy, though they will also apply to caretakers, maids, carers and many others. The truckers’ group says its...

介绍： The California Trucking Association launched a legal challenge against the state’s new law giving wage and benefit protections to independent contractors. The rules are aimed at workers in the gig economy, though they will also apply to caretakers, maids, carers and many others. The truckers’ group says its drivers’ ability to set their own timetables will be hampered and interstate commerce undermined. Uber and others want a measure to be put before voters next year that would exempt them from the law, which comes into effect on January 1st.

加州卡车运输协会发起了一项法律挑战，反对该州为独立承包商提供工资和福利保护的新法律。这些规定针对的是零工经济中的工人，不过也适用于看护者、女佣、护工和其他许多职业。卡车司机协会表示，司机自行设定时间表的能力将受到阻碍，州际贸易也将受到影响。优步和其他公司希望明年向选民提出一项措施，让他们免受1月1日生效的法律的约束。

A deal that will see Ascension, an American hospital network, share patient data with Google attracted the ire of lawmakers worried about privacy. Suspicion about Google’s intentions in health is a running theme: it was also criticised for a collaboration with a British hospital in 2016, and with the University of Chicago a year later.

美国医院网络阿森松将与谷歌共享患者数据，这一协议导致担忧隐私的立法者拍案而起。对谷歌在健康方面的意图的怀疑是一个持续的主题:它还因2016年与一家英国医院的合作以及一年后与芝加哥大学的合作而受到批评。