Customers stand socially distanced as they queue to enter Amazon’s new Amazon Fresh store in Ealing, west London. Amazon, last week, opened the first of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores in Europe, where customers will be able to buy goods without the need to queue at a checkout. Customers will scan a QR code on their way into the store, with cameras and technology identifying the items shoppers take from the shelves. AFP
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Firms are using armed guards and trucks with panic buttons and kill switches to protect vaccine shipments that present a challenge worthy of a James Bond film. With that cargo worth tens of billions of dollars and some individual shipments valued as high as $70m it is nearly certain that crooks will try to steal some of it. Interpol in December issued an orange alert notice warning that it expects a dramatic increase in armed robberies of vaccine shipments as well as vandalism by anti-vaccine militants. On the dark w
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In the US the idea has been supported in a series of SCOTUS decisions, starting with
Dartmouth College in 1818.
Most legal scholars point to the 1886
Santa Clara County v, Southern Pacific RR decision as having established the legal precedent for “corporate personhood” (with the help of the Court Reporter; one Bancroft Davis, a former RR executive who ‘wrongly’ claimed that the Court had ruled that corporations had 14th Amendment protections. It had not; while the justices orally agreed beforehand that corporations had such protections, the issue was not included in the case and therefore not decided by the Court).
Later decisions expanded the idea of “corporate personhood rights”. In