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One tweet tried to identify a cop — then five people were charged with felony harassment

The Verge

A New Jersey police department is pursuing cyber harassment charges against five people in connection with a protest photo uploaded to Twitter in June. It’s an unprecedented use of anti-harassment laws, coming amid a nationwide law enforcement backlash against anti-police brutality activism.

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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The legal framework for Bookshare is the Section 121 copyright exception in federal copyright law: all Bookshare users must have a disability that qualifies under that section. If a member has trouble opening a Bookshare file, or cannot get the file to function properly, what kind of response or advice might they get from technical support?

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Angry MacBook owners get class action status for butterfly keyboard suit

The Verge

The suit covers anyone who purchased an Apple MacBook with a butterfly keyboard in seven states: California, New York, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, Washington, and Michigan. It raises the stakes for a suit that was first filed in 2018 , three years after Apple added the controversial butterfly switches to its laptops.

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NPOs Win While Losing In Daniel’s Law Data Cases

The NonProfit Times

Most of the arguments to relieve data firms of litigation under Daniels Law in New Jersey were rejected by a Pennsylvania federal judge who was sitting in United States District Court for the District of New Jersey because all of the judges on that circuit recused themselves from the cases.

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Court Date Pending For Daniel’s Law Data Suits

The NonProfit Times

New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law, which penalizes the dissemination of names and residential addresses of judicial, law enforcement, child protection investigators and other covered individuals, is having a significant damping effect on marketing efforts – including nonprofit solicitations – aimed at Garden State residents.

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Daily Crunch: ‘Things don’t look good’: Y Combinator sends founders a 10-point survival strategy

TechCrunch

Oishii started out selling strawberries from its New Jersey facility at $50 for eight to 11 berries, and with a new facility up and running, the company is now able to reduce that to $20. My EAD (work permit) is expiring in May — we filed for the extension of both my visa and EAD a few months ago. We’re here for it.

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The Station: Waymo sues to protect trade secrets, Wisk lands more Boeing capital and a chat with Toyota’s chief scientist

TechCrunch

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, NJ TRANSIT, NYC Department of Transportation and the Partnership for New York City are behind the Transit Tech Lab. Applications for the Recovery Challenge and Sustainability Challenge are due March 25 and are accessible here.