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Italy's new anti-piracy law could bring swift justice to IPTV streamers and users

TechSpot

A new law was recently passed by the Italian parliament without a hitch, and the Authority for Communications Guarantees has now approved the rules highlighting its new powers. AGCOM's deliberation (680/13/CONS) is the agency's main "rule book" regarding online copyright. The changes approved by both chambers of the Italian parliament.

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Police arrest 150 suspects after closure of dark web’s largest illegal marketplace

The Verge

The site boasted some 500,000 users and facilitated around 320,000 transactions, reports the EU’s law enforcement agency, Europol, with clientele buying and selling everything from malware and stolen credit card information, to weapons and drugs. More than $31.6 More than $31.6 million ($4.17 million) in cryptocurrency.

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Clearview AI hit with sweeping legal complaints over controversial face scraping in Europe

The Verge

The complaints filed in France, Austria, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom say that the company’s method of documenting and collecting data — including images of faces it automatically extracts from public websites — violates European privacy laws.

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Your Cause Camp 2018 Lineup is Here

NonProfit Hub

Vu’s passion to make the world better, combined with a low score on the Law School Admission Test, drove him into the field of nonprofit work, where he learned that we should take the work seriously, but not ourselves. There’s tons of humor in the nonprofit world, and someone needs to document it.

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The best VPNs for staying anonymous and secure on the web

Mashable Tech

Along those same lines, using a VPN to unblock streaming services like Netflix from a country where it's not available isn't technically against the law, but it is a violation of the company's terms of use — i.e., you may get slapped with a warning or error message if caught. Let's not get too brazen, here. Choosing a VPN can be tricky.

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Leaked Uber Files reveal history of lawbreaking, lobbying and exploiting violence against drivers

TechCrunch

The Uber Files, which were originally shared with The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , show a company that has knowingly broken laws, gone to extreme lengths to avoid justice, secretly lobbied governments, received aid from top politicians and exploited violence against drivers to drum up business.

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Zoom knots itself a legal tangle over use of customer data for training AI models

TechCrunch

The relevant laws here are the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies when personal data is processed and gives people a suite of rights over what’s done with their information; and the ePrivacy Directive, an older piece of pan-EU legislation which deals with privacy in electronic comms. Funny that!

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