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Lawmakers propose ban on police buying access to Clearview AI and other data brokers

The Verge

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has proposed banning police from buying access to user data from data brokers, including ones that “illegitimately obtained” their records — like, its sponsors say, the facial recognition service Clearview AI. Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images.

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Europe to ‘assess’ Adobe’s proposed $20B Figma acquisition on competition grounds

TechCrunch

Adobe’s proposed plan to snap up digital design rival Figma for $20 billion has attracted the attentions of the European Commission (EC), which announced today that the proposed merger potentially “threatens to significantly affect competition in the market for interactive product design and whiteboarding software.”

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Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, and a slew of other stars are on this silent album. Here’s why

Fast Company Tech

With contributions from artists including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Cat Stevens, and Damon Albarn, the album was released Tuesday to protest proposed British changes to artificial intelligence laws that artists fear will erode their creative control. ” Britain’s center-left Labour Party government says it wants to make the U.K.

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Send Your Feedback to the FCC: Net Neutrality Needs You

NTEN

The FCC recently announced that it would consider new rules governing the Internet, including the opportunity for phone and cable Iternet Service Providers (ISPs) to create two levels of access, or a "fast lane" for those paying a higher price. Why does an open Web matter to your organization? Add your voice and send feedback to the FCC!

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Oregon Foundation looking for a Million Dollar Idea

Amy Sample Ward

More information is in the press release below – you can contact Marie with additional questions. The forum asks visitors to identify what they think is the most pressing issue facing Oregon and to share their best ideas to address it. And now they are up to something again: MMT is looking for a million dollar idea to support!

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New ‘felony streaming’ measure is aimed at piracy services, not Twitch streamers

The Verge

Monday night, Congress approved an over $2 trillion government spending and coronavirus relief package that included a handful of controversial copyright and trademark measures. On December 16th, Twitch addressed this proposal in its town hall, saying that the company did not expect the bill to affect its platform or its users.

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Israel’s political crisis has activated its apolitical tech industry — and there’s no turning back

TechCrunch

As unease spread amongst a handful of entrepreneurs, alarmed at radical “reforms,” proposed by the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government, to the independence of the judiciary, WhatsApp groups were fired up, and were quickly flooded with volunteers from the tech industry. We were tracking wherever MPs were.

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