Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The other half of the day they go to university pursuing advanced studies in numerous different fields (I asked a bunch of the students their area of study and heard answers like business, law, accountancy and even forestry). We scan the books in the U.S., The head of DDD's Laos office is Ms. Phabphada Dokbouathong (who goes by "Phab").

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The Verge

JANUARY 28, 2022

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a complaint against Amazon, alleging that the company illegally threatened, surveilled, and interrogated workers who were trying to start a union at its Staten Island, New York facilities. The NLRB has had several other disputes with Amazon around labor law.

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The Verge

APRIL 7, 2022

The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (or RWDSU) has filed objections against Amazon to the National Labor Relations Board, saying that the company has again interfered with its election in Bessemer, Alabama ( via CNBC ). The union wants the election set aside. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

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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TechSpot

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A group of 14 state attorneys general has filed lawsuits against TikTok, accusing it of harming children's mental health and violating consumer protection laws. The bipartisan coalition, led by New York and California, alleges that TikTok's platform is designed to be addictive and exploits young users.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against Amazon in the state’s supreme court on Tuesday, claiming the company failed to protect its workers early on in the COVID-19 pandemic and also retaliated against employees who voiced concerns over what they felt were inadequate safety measures.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

Clearview AI has been in the spotlight since a January investigation from The New York Times showed that its facial recognition technology was in widespread use among law enforcement agencies and private companies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested by The Royal Bahamas Police Force following reports that the United States filed criminal charges against the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX , and is likely to request his extradition. Government, based on a sealed indictment filed by the SDNY.”

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The Verge

MARCH 22, 2021

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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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

Unfortunately, due to poor management, discrimination, and lack of opportunities, some interns had no choice but to file lawsuits and go public with their problems. Here’s where it gets messy, though: A New York judge ruled Wang was not covered by the New York Human Rights Law because she was not paid, and therefore not an employee.

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The Verge

JANUARY 17, 2021

Amazon is facing a new lawsuit alleging that a deal between the company and five book publishers has created higher prices on e-books, The Wall Street Journal reported. price that Amazon preferred.

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The Verge

MAY 6, 2021

The New York attorney general’s office issued a report Thursday confirming that some of the US’s largest broadband providers engaged in a massive campaign to flood the Federal Communications Commission with fake comments in the run-up to the commission’s 2017 order to roll back net neutrality. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Citizen Lab previously found evidence linking the Pegasus spyware to the killing of Jamal Khashoggi and a separate campaign against a New York Times journalist. In both cases, traces of Pegasus spyware were found on the targets’ devices.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The company is involved in two lawsuits against New York City that involve laws attempting to regulate how delivery companies work with restaurants there. In a complaint filed in US District Court on September 9th, the companies argue that the fee caps are government overreach.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Delivery service platforms DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats are suing New York City for capping the amounts they can collect in fees from restaurants. In a complaint filed in US District Court court late Thursday, the companies argue that the fee caps are government overreach that will harm businesses.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

million, by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority for illegally sharing private information about Grindr users to advertisers, according to The New York Times. Grindr will be fined 100 million Norwegian kroner, or about $11.7 Grindr has until February 15th to comment on the Norwegian Data Protection Authority’s ruling. “We

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 25, 2010

As the New York Times reported , late last week: The new law, embedded in the 393 pages of the Pension Protection Act of 2006, also directed the Internal Revenue Service to revoke the tax exemptions of groups that failed to file for three consecutive years. Three years have passed, and thus the deadline.(

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 10, 2024

Former NRA Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Wilson “Woody” Phillips has agreed to a deal banning him from serving as a fiduciary of a nonprofit in New York for 10 years. James filed a lawsuit against the NRA and the other current and former senior officers in August 2020. million in financial harm to the NRA.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Amazon’s decision to fire warehouse worker Courtney Bowden violated labor laws, according to charges filed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last month and obtained by BuzzFeed News. In November, a judge dismissed a lawsuit from four former workers at a distribution center in New York.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

” Sangha, a law lecturer at the University of Pennslyvania and a licensed attorney in the State of New York, founded LexCheck in 2015. In-house lawyers are already using contract tools more than any other form of legal tech, according to a recent Bloomberg Law survey. To date, the startup has raised $22 million.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

million employees, according to The New York Time s. To add to the dysfunction, Amazon’s team didn’t have any policies to accommodate local laws like one in its home state. The Washington state attorney general that took on her case called her termination a “failure” and retaliation that violated state law, according to the NYT.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

A group of child privacy advocates has filed a complaint against TikTok with the Federal Trade Commission, claiming the video app violated an agreement to protect children on its platform, The New York Times reported. another case of a digital giant deliberately violating the law”. TikTok paid a $5.7

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 23, 2024

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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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

Privacy International (PI) and several other European privacy and digital rights organizations announced today that they’ve filed legal complaints against the controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI. New York-based Clearview claims to have built “the largest known database of 3+ billion facial images.”.

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The Verge

JULY 26, 2021

In February, Tether and its owner Bitfinex reached a settlement with the New York Attorney General that included paying $18.5 The company says, “Tether routinely has open dialogue with law enforcement agencies, including the U.S.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Amazon is facing new questions over failed COVID protections in its fulfillment centers, spurred on by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Amazon workers protested outside a warehouse last year | Spencer Platt / Getty Images. Update: November 30th 7:11 PM ET: Adds statement from Amazon spokesperson.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

The group has provided its information to federal prosecutors who are investigating the hackers and who hired them, The New York Times reports. One screenshot shared by Citizen Lab shows a phishing message alleging to be a Dropbox link to a file called “ExxonMobile(confidential).docx,”

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 5, 2024

According to court papers, AAER filed its challenge on behalf of three anonymous female business owners , two in Virginia and one in New York, whose small businesses met the firmographics criteria of eligible contestants. Schwartz, partner at law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher wrote to The NonProfit Times. “As

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

California attorney general Rob Bonta said in a press release that the penalty comes after a complaint filed against Amazon alleged that the company didn’t properly notify warehouse workers and local health agencies about new COVID-19 cases “often leaving them in the dark and unable to effectively track the spread of the virus.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Dear Sophie, A few years ago, I moved my startup’s headquarters to New York from Estonia on an E-2 investor visa. Sophie Alcorn.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

A group of three Amazon warehouse employees who work out of the company’s New York fulfillment centers have filed a lawsuit alleging the company put them and their families at risk of COVID-19 infection, according to a report from Bloomberg. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. That’s all they told me.”.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

According to a report by The New York Times , the company previously didn’t allow employees to be around its warehouse, delivery, or other facilities more than 15 minutes before or after their shifts, making it more difficult to organize with co-workers. It’ll also have to prove to the NLRB that it’s complying with the order.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The report reviews key employee compensation based on 160,726 observations from 101,489 Forms 990 and 990-EZ filed by 501(c) organizations with the IRS for fiscal year 2019. The District of Columbia has the highest median executive compensation at $174K, followed by New York ($152K) and Massachusetts ($143K).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. This first grant allowed us to pilot a Bookshare outreach project in the New York metro area, with a de facto focus on senior citizens with vision loss. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In 2022, workers at an Amazon warehouse in the New York City borough of Staten Island unionized with Amazon Labor Union, which joined forces with the Teamsters last year. Following the union win, Whole Foods asked the NLRB to toss out the election results, arguing the voting process was tainted.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Amazon employees in Florida, New York and Washington State will be the first to try the tool. Better.com also made headlines last July, when it appeared to still be moving forward with its SPAC filing despite lackluster performance of blank-check combination debuts. (On

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Luckin neither admitted nor denied these claims, which were filed in a court in the Southern District of New York. ” Luckin Coffee will unluckin’ly delist from Nasdaq following fraud allegations.

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