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Regology snares $8M Series A to help navigate maze of global regulations

TechCrunch

Every country has its own bundle of laws, rules and regulations, and they change on a regular basis making it an enormous challenge to keep up with it all. He formed Regology to provide large global companies with a way to stay on top of these myriad regulations. Goenka says that his company started by compiling a database of laws.

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Dear Sophie: Any unique immigration strategies for quick hiring?

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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.” Ireland, 26 other countries in Europe, China and Iran. Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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‘Historic’ global minimum corporate tax rate formally endorsed by world leaders

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World leaders have formally agreed to an overhaul of international tax rules that would impose a new global minimum tax on business profits of 15 percent, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has announced. Many such companies are headquartered in Ireland to benefit from its lower 12.5 G20 leaders in Rome.

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TikTok investigated by EU over alleged addictive content and weak child protection measures

TechNode

Companies found in breach of the act could face fines of up to 6% of their global revenue. Context: In 2023, the Douyin sister app was fined 345 million in Ireland and 12.7 million in the UK by local regulators, who cited violations of the law in the platforms handling of children’s account data.

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Zoom knots itself a legal tangle over use of customer data for training AI models

TechCrunch

The relevant laws here are the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies when personal data is processed and gives people a suite of rights over what’s done with their information; and the ePrivacy Directive, an older piece of pan-EU legislation which deals with privacy in electronic comms. Funny that!

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Dear Sophie: How to maneuver the latest travel bans, H-1B alternatives

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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.” Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives.

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Social media giants urged to tackle data-scraping privacy risks

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. “In most jurisdictions, personal information that is ‘publicly available’, ‘publicly accessible’ or ‘of a public nature’ on the internet, is subject to data protection and privacy laws,” they write.