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

Polish opposition leader Krzysztof Brejza | Photo by Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Several members of political opposition groups in Poland have produced evidence that they were hacked by Pegasus spyware, raising alarming questions about the Polish government’s use of the software.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

(Photo By Deposit Photos) Language that would allow the U.S. Organizations suspected of violating the law are rightly subject to criminal investigation and prosecution. House of Representatives that would provide tax relief to Americans held hostage. House Rules Committee will consider H.R Section 4 of H.R.9495

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge. We believe podcasting is and should remain an open medium, free of government censorship,” Pocket Casts says in a statement posted to Twitter. “As Apple didn’t say which content violated Chinese law. Pocket Casts for iOS. As such we won’t be censoring podcast content at their request.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

But with the help of advances in machine learning, it’s also easier than ever to anonymize photos and videos, removing information that would otherwise identify people. That includes the time a photo or video was taken and, depending on your privacy settings, where it was taken. Screenshots: Playground.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 19, 2025

Photo: Rose] The recreational cannabis landscape has been rapidly changing in recent years. Photo: Gossamer] The Edible Future of Cannabis To people in the cannabis space, the mainstreaming of edibles is a natural next step for recreational and medicinal weed. Meanwhile, the 2018 Farm Bill that removed hemp containing up to 0.3%

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images. NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) have sued to stop Texas from enforcing HB 20, a new law barring large social media companies from banning users or removing content based on the “viewpoint” of the user. Nobody wants any more spam.”.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge. The bill is likely to pass if it’s introduced, giving India some of the world’s strictest digital currency laws. The bill is likely to pass if it’s introduced, giving India some of the world’s strictest digital currency laws.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

(Photo By Deposit Photos) By Marnie Webb From the frontlines of disaster relief to the forefront of technological innovation, civil society organizations are navigating a rapidly changing landscape. Democratic backsliding and restrictive laws will pose challenges to nonprofits operations and the safety of their beneficiaries.

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2021

Twitter has reinstated the accounts of several politicians in India’s opposition party, which were suspended after party leader Rahul Gandhi tweeted a photo of himself with the parents of a girl who was allegedly raped and murdered in New Delhi, Reuters reported.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI this week for “mission support,” government contracting records show (as first spotted by the tech accountability nonprofit Tech Inquiry ). Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

A protester makes three-finger salute as another holds up a poster of de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an anti-coup march February 6th in Yangon, Myanmar | Photo by Getty Images/Getty Images. Twitter and Facebook, which owns Instagram, did not immediately return requests for comment from The Verge on Saturday.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

law enforcement agencies are popping bottles following an announcement that they were able to seize website domains said to belong to SSNDOB, a notorious marketplace known to be cashing in on Americans’ Social Security and credit card numbers. As markets go down, government tech spending stays steady: How can investors tap in?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Photo by TASSTASS via Getty Images. The service relies on stored photographs to validate metro payments, an obvious privacy concern given the previous uses of facial recognition technology by the Russian capital’s law enforcement. Photo by TASSTASS via Getty Images. That’s all fine and good, at least conceptually. “The

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

In the United States, only approximately four states have a law prohibiting marriage under the age of 18. An expert on branding startups, executive leadership, governance, and more, Allison has deep roots in the association community. Governance, and the vision of governance, is so varied around the world.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2021

The law has a hilariously corrupt exemption for any company that owns or operates a theme park or large entertainment complex in the state of Florida. So all Twitter, Facebook, TikTok et al have to do to comply with the law and avoid the knotty First Amendment issue of government speech regulations is build their own Floridian theme parks.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

federal and state government agencies under the Freedom of Information Act. FOIA allows anyone to request information from the government, with some exceptions. Browder said that DoNotPay “would not exist” without FOIA laws. I asked the US government for my immigration file and all I got were these stupid photos.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Photo by: Visions of America/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Other cities such as Boston , San Francisco , and Oakland have passed laws barring public institutions from using facial recognition, but Portland is the first to prohibit private use. The new law is actually established as two ordinances.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge. As the report notes, the Indian government says that the company needs to obtain a license to operate in the country before it starts deploying its services. In other words, Starlink will have to put preorders on hold until it can get approval from the Indian government.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

If Apple is forced to build a backdoor in its products, that backdoor will end up in Americans phones, tablets and computers, undermining the security of Americans data, as well as of the countless federal, state and local government agencies that entrust sensitive data to Apple products, Biggs and Wyden reportedly wrote.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

Photo: New America / Flickr. Tim Wu — the Columbia law professor who coined the term “net neutrality” — is joining the Biden administration , where he’ll be working on technology and competition policy at the National Economic Council. Wu is a prominent voice online, as one of the most well-known advocates for a free and open internet.

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The Verge

MARCH 12, 2021

Photo by Paul Clarke / Wikimedia. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, writes in a new post on the internet’s 32nd anniversary that governments must work to ensure global broadband access by the year 2030 in order to bridge the digital divide and better hold tech companies accountable.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

Concerns over the unregulated use of facial recognition in the US, both by law enforcement and private companies, has been steadily growing over the last few years, fueled by studies that show the tech in its current form to be inherently flawed and more likely to misclassify the gender and identity of Black individuals.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Facebook has broken the law. Years after the FTC cleared our acquisitions, the government now wants a do-over with no regard for the impact that precedent would have on the broader business community or the people who choose our products every day,” the company said. Facebook has broken the law. Facebook has broken the law.

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The Verge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. Official Rules, which govern, can be here: Official Rules. Did you think the season of giving was over? Not at The Verge ! In total, the combined value of the bag and its contents is about $623.

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Candid

APRIL 29, 2024

Traditionally, nonprofit governance has been perceived through a hierarchical lens, with board members primarily overseeing and guiding the organization’s direction while staff execute the operational tasks. The nonprofit governance orthodoxy Nonprofit governance operates within a framework of three legal duties.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2020

Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images. AB5, which was signed into law last September, enshrines the so-called “ABC test” to determine if someone is a contractor or an employee. A California judge ruled that Uber and Lyft must classify their drivers as employees in a stunning preliminary injunction issued Monday afternoon.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

government entities. Christine took a photo of her profile for posterity, just to show she was at one time notable. Hello to compensation : Uber’s food delivery business settled with over 4,000 dismissed couriers in Spain and agreed to pay severance to those let go ahead of the country’s labor reform law, Natasha L reports.

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The Verge

JULY 23, 2021

Photo by Ryan Loughlin. Every single recreational pilot in the US needs to take it ASAP If you’ve flown a drone for fun in the USA anytime in the past month, chances are you were breaking the law. Proactively stay away from any aircraft with an actual pilot; emergency response, law enforcement, etc. TL;DR, please.

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The Verge

JANUARY 7, 2022

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. But I also support anti-money-laundering and Know Your Customer (KYC) laws, which are useful in combating terrorists, murder-for-hire plotters, and other harms. But the United States does have anti-money-laundering and KYC laws.

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The Verge

AUGUST 5, 2021

The program announced today will apply the same scans to user images stored in iCloud Photos, even if the images are never sent to another user or otherwise shared. threshold of matches is exceeded for an iCloud Photos account. Photo: Apple. database. The risk of the system incorrectly flagging an account is extremely low.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 1, 2025

Image credit: Photo by cottonbro studio on pexels In late December 2024, New York State Senator Andrew Gounardess legislation to protect domestic violence survivors was signed into law. The legislation comes as law enforcement struggles to address the evolving role of technology in domestic violence cases.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

McAfee has had a contentious association with the law for years, though it’s at times unclear which run-ins are real and what has been fabricated. Government” in January 2019. In that same video, he said he hasn’t paid taxes in eight years. That will matter later.) The tax evasion, at least, appears to be real.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The company’s patent application details its use of a “web crawler” to acquire images, even noting that “online photos associated with a person’s account may help to create additional records of facial recognition data points,” which its machine learning algorithm can then use to find and identify matches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Among other things, next year marks the 225 th anniversary of the Constitutional Convention where our democratic governing system was created. At the close of the convention, Benjamin Franklin was reportedly asked what kind of government had been created. The election of 2012 will prove to be a momentous event in our nation’s history.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Photo by Kimberly White / Getty Images for TechCrunch. You are not worth having any conversations about this, since you are not someone whose humanity (let alone expertise recognized by journalists, governments, scientists, civic organizations such as the electronic frontiers foundation etc) is acknowledged or valued in this company.”.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2021

Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images. Wyden announced the bill last year in an interview with The Verge , following reports that several government agencies had purchased citizens’ location data through a service named Venntel rather than obtaining it through a warrant. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Sen.

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