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Uber scandal, Google employees want data protections and how marketers spend their ad money - PR Daily

Last updated Monday, July 11, 2022 11:33 ET , Source: NewsService

New York City’s Department of Sanitation took to TikTok last week to ask New Yorkers to move their cars on street-cleaning days.

The video, set to “Angel,” by Sarah McLachlan, is a black-and-white plea for car-owning city dwellers to respect the newly reinstated twice-weekly street cleaning policy. Sanitation workers star in the video and cite the abundance of trash on NYC streets as the reason for the soulful PSA, parodying the well-known ASPCA ads.

Jessica Tisch, commissioner of the NYCDS, sits in a garbage truck in the video.

“Will you move your car? Every day, litter gets on the streets of our city and it’s crying out to be cleaned up,” she says.

The video is a good example of how to address a an important but maybe not-so-interesting topic in a light-hearted way.

Here are today’s other top stories:

‘Violence guarantees success,’ former Uber CEO told top execs

“Violence guarantees success,” former Uber CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick wrote in a message to the company’s top executives.

The group was discussing the potential for violence at a protest by taxi drivers in France, in which some execs expressed hesitation at sending Uber drivers to the protest.

The revelation is just one of many findings from an investigation by The Guardian and other news outlets into the rideshare company’s questionable actions over the past few years.

From The Guardian:

A leaked trove of confidential files has revealed the inside story of how the tech giant Uber flouted laws, duped...



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