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Car-sharing startup Turo expands to New York and France

TechCrunch

Peer-to-peer car sharing company Turo is expanding to New York State and France in June, the company said on Wednesday. Turo’s launch in New York follows the state legislature’s passing of SB 6715 in December 2021, a law that provides a regulatory framework for peer-to-peer car sharing operations in the state.

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

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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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Amazon fined record $887 million over EU privacy violations

The Verge

That converts to about $887 million US, which would be the largest fine ever under Europe’s data protection law. EU commissioners announced in November 2020 that it was their belief Amazon’s retail business misused non-public data to compete with other sellers in France and Germany.

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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. Far beyond what we could ever expect as online users.

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. France and Germany. ” Scaling up on the shoulders of giants.

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Apple, Microsoft, and Google all receive poor grades on repairability report card

The Verge

The report , released today by the US Public Research Interest Group’s Education Fund, draws on data companies are now releasing in France to comply with the government’s world-first “repairability index” law , which went into effect last year. Companies were penalized for lobbying against right to repair laws. “If

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Social media giants urged to tackle data-scraping privacy risks

TechCrunch

.’s ICO, Canada’s OPC and Hong Kong’s OPCPD, has urged mainstream social media platforms to protect users’ public posts from scraping — warning they face a legal responsibility to do so in most markets. Data security is a dynamic responsibility and vigilance is paramount,” they also write.