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ICE just signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI

The Verge

The purchase order for $224,000 describes “clearview licenses” and lists “ICE mission support dallas” as the contracting office. The technology could identify someone just from a photo and put names to faces through its trove of 3 billion images scraped from social media sites — often against the platforms’ rules.

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Massachusetts on the verge of becoming first state to ban police use of facial recognition

The Verge

It isn’t a blanket ban on facial recognition; police will still be able to run searches against the state’s driver’s license database but only with a warrant and requirements that law enforcement agencies publish annual transparency reports regarding those searches.

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Merit grabs $50M Series B to expand digital credentials platform

TechCrunch

When we think about identity in the digital world, it usually involves a username and password, but Merit (originally called Sigma) wants to help governments issue digital credentials that link back to a government license database with the goal of bringing an end to flimsy paper cards.

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Feds arrest founder of bitcoin ‘mixer’ they say laundered $335 million over ten years

The Verge

The Department of Justice said it has arrested a Russian-Swedish national who allegedly operated a long-running cryptocurrency laundering site. Bitcoin Fog has received a fair amount of coverage from cryptocurrency blogs and news sites since its inception, with some recommending it as the best option for hiding the origin of bitcoin.

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The Ultimate Nonprofit SharePoint App: The Case Management Database of Children's Network of Solano County

Tech Soup

Getting a case management databases in use by several people and across different offices and even across different organizations is a particularly thorny problem. Thanks to Darren DeRose, the IT Administrator for Children's Network of Solano County in Fairfield, California, having a shared database is no longer such a problem.

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Docstoc launches video program for its 30m users, may raise funds for acquisitions, but not service

The Next Web

With over 30 million registered users and 25 million documents shared on the site, the company has been focused on becoming the toolkit for businesses and entrepreneurs. Each of the videos also references documents that can be found on the site, thereby tying everything together.

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Integrating WordPress with Salesforce

Saleforce Nonprofit

Embed the generated HTML on your site, and you have a form that submits the information as a new record in the Lead object. Pricing and level of effort: No licensing costs; included with Salesforce . Pricing and level of effort: Low annual licensing costs ranging from $50 to $300 depending on the package.

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