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Robot lawyer startup DoNotPay now lets you file FOIA requests

TechCrunch

In the early days of the pandemic, the startup helped its users file for unemployment, where many state benefit sites crashed. federal and state government agencies under the Freedom of Information Act. FOIA allows anyone to request information from the government, with some exceptions. That’s where DoNotPay wants to help.

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Why Vulnerable Kids Depend on Government & Big Tech Getting Data Privacy Laws Right

Saleforce Nonprofit

million images, videos, and other files related to child sexual exploitation were reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). . By: Brandon Kaopuiki, Adviser, IJM Hub Against Online Sexual Exploitation of Children. In 2020, 65.4

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X, formerly Twitter, challenges California’s new transparency law as unconstitutional

TechCrunch

X, formerly known as Twitter, has filed a lawsuit alleging that a new California law requiring social networks to declare certain moderation practices is a violation of the company’s Constitutional right to free speech. AB 587 was signed into law a year ago.

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Spyware scandal rocks Polish government

The Verge

In the Polish case, Citizen Lab also found evidence of spyware compromises targeting a lawyer representing Polish opposition groups and a prosecutor involved in a case against the ruling Law and Justice party. In both cases, traces of Pegasus spyware were found on the targets’ devices.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Or file a DMCA notice. Now, apparently, we can file a counter-notice. Yet another example of bills written to catch criminals, that do very little to stop them, but end up screwing up law-abiding organizations.

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A court decision in favor of startup UpCodes may help shape open access to the law

TechCrunch

For the past three years, UpCodes and its founders have been entangled in a copyright lawsuit filed by the International Code Council (ICC). ” Can the law be copyrighted? Nine days after Judge Marrero’s ruling on May 27, however, the ICC filed another lawsuit against UpCodes and the Reynolds brothers.

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News publisher files class action antitrust suit against Google, citing AI’s harms to their bottom line

TechCrunch

A new class action lawsuit filed this week in the U.S. antitrust law, the Sherman Act, and others, on behalf of news publishers. The case, filed by Arkansas-based publisher Helena World Chronicle, argues that Google “siphons off” news […] © 2023 TechCrunch. District Court in D.C.

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