Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

On March 14, Thorleifsson celebrated the completion of Ramp Up Iceland with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and the support of the mayor, prime minister, president, and other leaders of the municipal governments across Iceland. Now, the team plans to expand the initiative to Paris and Lviv, Ukraine.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

More protests at Tesla will follow this weekend, all aimed at Musks work to control swaths of the government with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. The layoffs also included workers responsible for the country’s arsenal of nuclear weapons, though the government then scrambled to attempt to rehire them.)

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that aimed to limit large social platforms’ ability to moderate content on the grounds that it is likely to violate the First Amendment. Private companies that use editorial judgment to choose whether to publish content.cannot be compelled by the government to publish other content”.

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Wired

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The ACLU says it stands ready to sue for access to government records that detail DOGEs access to sensitive personnel data.

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Engadget

APRIL 1, 2025

The company never explicitly stated why it limited access to Find My in South Korea, but it appeared to be related to local laws that could have allowed the government access to the location data. Without Find My, they are basically just puck-shaped paperweights. The service first appeared during a beta test of iOS 18.4,

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Wired

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Here's how the 1974 Privacy Act is being used in legal battles against DOGEand how you can protect yourself from government surveillance.

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The Verge

JANUARY 1, 2021

Here’s Wing on that: This allows a drone to be identified as it flies over without necessarily sharing that drone’s complete flight path or flight history, and that information, which can be more sensitive, is not displayed to the public and only available to law enforcement if they have proper credentials and a reason to need that information.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Apple has added iPhone and MacBook repairability scores to its online store in France to comply with a new French law that came into effect this year. The repairability scores are required by a new French law which came into effect on January 1st with new anti-waste legislation. Screenshot: Apple.com.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

X, formerly known as Twitter, has filed a lawsuit alleging that a new California law requiring social networks to declare certain moderation practices is a violation of the company’s Constitutional right to free speech. AB 587 was signed into law a year ago.

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TechSpot

APRIL 13, 2023

The law requires social media companies that earn more than $100 million in annual revenue to work with third-party services to verify new account holders' personal information. This is done using "any commercially reasonable age verification method" or government-issued IDs such as photo IDs or driver's licenses.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In the Polish case, Citizen Lab also found evidence of spyware compromises targeting a lawyer representing Polish opposition groups and a prosecutor involved in a case against the ruling Law and Justice party. In both cases, traces of Pegasus spyware were found on the targets’ devices.

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Engadget

MARCH 26, 2025

Utah Governor Spencer Cox has signed the App Store Accountability Act into law, making it the first state to require that app store makers verify their users' ages. We've reached out to Apple and Google for comment now that the bill has been signed into law.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Now let’s take a deeper look into what complying with this law means for nonprofits with employees doing business in the state — discussing everything from human resources to donor relations. In part one, I described the difficulties nonprofits are facing trying to comply with the Stop WOKE Act.

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TechSpot

JULY 25, 2024

The new measure, known as EMBAG or the Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Performance of Government Tasks, was approved in 2023 after years of debate. Switzerland has started requiring all its public organizations to use open-source software. As highlighted by ZDNet, EMBAG is now forcing. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Spotify has reversed course on a decision to exit the Uruguayan market, after gaining assurances from the government that copyright law changes it’s introducing won’t result in Spotify incurring extra costs. Last October, Uruguay passed a new law […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

On Wednesday, the US government confirmed that Chinese hackers breached several US telecommunications service providers. The threat actors compromised wiretap systems used for law enforcement surveillance.

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Charity Village

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This article was previously published by Law For Non-Profits and is reprinted with permission. Law For Non-Profits is a simple and low-barrier digital platform. It’s designed to help nonprofit leaders understand their legal obligations.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Under legal and regulatory requirements in the Affordable Care Act, Internal Revenue Code, and state laws, nonprofit hospitals have broad flexibility in defining their own eligibility criteria for patients to qualify for financial assistance, as a result criteria vary across hospitals, according to information from the AMA.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Recently, companies, nonprofits, schools, schools that are also nonprofits, consultants and educators have been caught in a windstorm of confusion over the implementation of two Florida laws.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

But those laws could be changed. The law mandates that the government maintain habitat for listed species. In some states, insects arent considered wildlife, so state wildlife agencies have their hands tied when it comes to working on butterfly conservation. The federal Endangered Species Act can also help.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Policy changes, such as updating zoning laws to prevent rebuilding in highly vulnerable areas, can avoid costly damage in the future. Insurers can provide a road map for how to reduce those risks , while state and local governments can provide assistance to retrofit homes and help ensure that insurance premiums remain affordable.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Apple said it will no longer give over records of users’ push notifications to law enforcement unless the company receives a valid judge’s order.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Pay transparency laws, which typically require employers to share the pay range for a role in the job posting, are designed to encourage employers to be more open with employees and job seekers about compensation. And they’re becoming the norm.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Guardian reports that Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced his government would introduce legislation this week requiring social media companies to collect personal details, likely phone numbers, email addresses and contact names, of current and new users so they can be handed over in defamation cases.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

Colorado is on track to meet greenhouse gas emissions reductions of 26% by 2025 and 50% by 2030, over 2005 levelsalbeit a year late for each period mandated under state law, according to a November report compiled by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Colorado Energy Office.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 25, 2021

California’s Department of Justice already oversees charities and regulates fundraising on behalf of all charitable purposes in the state, but with the surge in online fundraising platforms, the state’s law, as written, wasn’t sufficient to reach online fundraising.

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Wired

MARCH 22, 2025

The domestic terrorism designation could give law enforcement sweeping authority to surveil people protesting against Elon Musk's role in the US federal government, civil liberties experts warn.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The families that did take advantage of those policies reported being nearly twice as satisfied with paid leave than they were with other state benefits; at the same time, parents were less likely to take paid leave when compared to similar government offerings like unemployment benefits. had paid leave.

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TechSpot

MAY 8, 2024

A lawsuit filed by TikTok and ByteDance in the court of appeals for the District of Columbia calls the law an "unprecedented violation" of the First Amendment. The companies add that the requirement to divest TikTok to avoid a nationwide ban is not commercially, legally, or technically possible, partly because. Read Entire Article

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

She teams with and coordinates with other environmental nonprofits to use every law on the books to battle climate change and polluters. Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate first-ever standards to govern disposal of coal ash and limit the wastewater discharge of toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants. Cook, Ph.D.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 1, 2022

New laws can change the way both your donors and clients interact with you. Federal legislation can have a wide-ranging impact on nonprofit organizations and the people they serve.

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Charity Village

JANUARY 23, 2025

This article was previously published by Law For Non-Profits and is reprinted with permission. This article is the second in a three-part series – check out the first article. Okay, so next how do you qualify for charitable status?

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Engadget

APRIL 17, 2025

Back in 2024, California lawmakers proposed the idea of blocking children's access to algorithmic social feeds , and just this year Utah passed an age verification law for app stores , a decidedly blunt way to try and guarantee child safety. This article originally appeared on Engadget at [link]

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

The bill is likely to pass if it’s introduced, giving India some of the world’s strictest digital currency laws. Reuters’ source, a government official, didn’t specify the punishment for breaking the rules after that. But a 2019 government panel recommended a jail sentence of up to 10 years for cryptocurrency-related offenses.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The former head of trust and safety at Twitter has warned the platform now known as X is charting a collision course with the European Union’s rebooted digital rulebook, the Digital Services Act (DSA) — which carries penalties of up to 6% of global annual turnover for confirmed breaches of the online governance regime.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This is the United States’ first piece of legislation that aims to increase diversity within the venture capital landscape.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2021

Starting April 1st, users setting up a new iPhone in Russia will see a screen that allows them to automatically install apps that are officially sanctioned by the Russian government, in compliance with Russian law ( via Engadget ). The law was originally set to go into effect in July 2020, but was pushed back to April 2021).

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