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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Together with our partners in the nonprofit, technology, government, academic and publishing sectors, we participate in new cultural and technological movements, deriving new knowledge that we apply for social gain. Special thanks go to Charles Coward and Xavier Domènech of the Barcelona law firm Uría Menéndez.

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

TechCrunch

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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Conspiracy theorists and white supremacists want to ‘incite fear’ by targeting cell towers

The Verge

The NYPD intelligence report suggests that disparate groups see attacks on US infrastructure as an effective way to achieve their goal of “fomenting a general distrust of government.” Dozens of sites were targeted by arson attacks in the UK, Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, and beyond.

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Italy’s ban on cultivated meat could set the industry back

TechCrunch

government was getting more comfortable with the concept of cultivated meat , the Italian government put forth a bill banning the use of lab-grown food. ” The bill will now go in front of parliament, and if passed, any violation of the law in the future could result in fines of up to €60,000, or about $65,000.

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“We are going to create the best environment for startups in Europe”

TechCrunch

Spain’s government is gearing up to pass the country’s first ever startup law. A draft law agreed by ministers was presented to the parliament last month. So — if all goes to plan — Spain will finally get a startup law before the end of this year. Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat.

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DigestAI’s 19-year-old founder wants to make education addictive

TechCrunch

At first, he just made the app as a tool for his classmates — but his work ended up being honored by the United Arab Emirates’ government. based universities, Bocconi University in Italy, a European law firm and other clients. Before founding DigestAI, Pativada built a COVID-19 contact tracing platform.

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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. And be used to pump out unwanted direct marketing or spam.