Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Most recently, Nadine comes to Benetech from Water.org, where she developed and executed the organization’s public affairs strategy. We have had the benefit of incredibly generous pro bono legal assistance over our history, including our board members Gerry Davis and Rob Wexler.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In it, the company detailed a plan to reorganize its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation (PBC). What is a public benefit corporation? Depending on who you ask, you may get a different history of PBCs, but in the dominant narrative, they came out of a certification program created by a nonprofit called B Lab.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

However, these startups have been operating in an unregulated environment — until today, when the country’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, approved a new law that gives the country’s monetary authority, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), the power to regulate the industry and take action on those that violate consumer privacy.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2021

Ring is adjusting how public agencies such as police and fire departments are able to request video clips from Ring camera owners in its Neighbors app. Ring says it limits video clips requests to “verified public safety agencies” and has a set of guidelines that agencies must abide by in order to be able to request footage.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

February is Black History Month and while there are countless ways to honor and celebrate black history throughout the year, we’re giving you a place to start by highlighting eight nonprofits that are making major waves in their communities. Southern Poverty Law Center. Black Public Media.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

We cannot let them roll this horrible law out to other States. Instead of paying their workers, gig corporations pumped $200M to pass prop 22, claiming the worker protections guaranteed under the law would force them to drive up cost & pass it on to customers. Photo by Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Though the idea of helping and giving back to others has existed since Biblical times, nonprofit organizations in the United States have a much shorter history. Let’s take a look at what we can learn from the history of nonprofit organizations. In 1991, the World Wide Web became available for public use.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Team Tableau Public. Despite it all, one thing remained steadfast: the Tableau Public global community of data enthusiasts’ commitment to bringing impactful (and often mindblowing) data insights to life. Each day, the Tableau Public team selects and features a “Viz of the Day” (VOTD) based on a variety of criteria.

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The Verge

AUGUST 21, 2020

Epic retaliated with a lawsuit claiming that Apple violates antitrust law by controlling iOS platform access through the App Store and requiring developers to use its payment options. We choose to follow this path in the firm belief that history and law are on our side.”. Apple's statement is misleading.

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Achieve

MARCH 4, 2022

This information likely includes names, addresses, email addresses, birth dates, payment information, donation histories, volunteer histories, and more. Digital privacy has become a major new fixture in public discourse across all sectors. How does the GDPR relate to US-based nonprofit marketing and communications?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Amazon has been accused of price gouging on essential items like toilet paper and antibacterial soap in a report by consumer rights group Public Citizen. Here Public Citizen found increases of up to 274 percent for antibacterial soap and 941 percent for flour. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Take face masks as an example.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Food delivery platform DoorDash filed its widely anticipated IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, and plans to take the company public early next month. That law would have required them to treat their workers like employees and provide benefits. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

Perhaps around passing one of the most important legislative bills in your organization’s history? Do they feel that one day Twitter and Facebook are going to bring in the big bucks and build a huge base of activists that will come to your organization’s rescue when you need their help the most?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

A new law to follow” seems unlikely to have featured on many business wishlists this holiday season, particularly if that law concerned data privacy. But for 2021, I believe startups in the United States should be demanding that legislators deliver a federal privacy law. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

SPAC market kept rolling along this week with news that Satellogic will go public on the Nasdaq stock exchange thanks to a merger with a blank check company. It was not alone in pursuing the transaction type Tuesday, with news breaking that Nextdoor will also go public on the Nasdaq via a SPAC. Global law firm Skadden counts 16 U.S.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

A law meant to protect Indigenous art might just be lip service The first embroidery stitch María Méndez Rodríguez learned at the age of 7 was the chain stitch. Whether the law actually works is another question. Likewise, the law says that any contracts or agreements made by any member individually will be null.

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.orgSource

APRIL 29, 2024

ChatGPT was launched to the public on November 30, 2022. We’re trying to manage the future with laws and regulations that were created over 200 years ago. Our history can’t be a guide for future behavior, but it is a template for enduring values. The world has a smart phone in its pocket. The bottle is open.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 5, 2024

Finally, the public interest is well served by vindicating § 1981’s terms and aims by ensuring racial equality in contracting.” Schwartz, partner at law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher wrote to The NonProfit Times. “As It’s different for all of us, and that’s a strength.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. Francisco Polo. opens in a new window) license.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

But that follows two court case settlements and a new law in South Korea that also have implications for how Apple treats developers. Here, then, is a very brief history of the major policy changes and statements Apple has made about the App Store over the years. Apple case. The Epic v.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And all Epic has to show for that money is… well, the biggest change in App Store history , as Mark Gurman points out. Here’s our just-published history of the App Store’s major policy changes , so you can see for yourself.) It’s just that, as of right now, Epic can’t take advantage of it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Although SVB’s failure can’t be blamed on the venture ecosystem, some policymakers have joined the general public in maligning the bank’s depositors — in large part venture-backed startups. Consequently, they are seen as riskier than investing in real estate or the public markets. This is an inflection point.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

. “Local government agencies, such as county and municipality governments and their departments, play an important role in public safety,” Ring wrote in a blog post published this afternoon. ” Participating local government agencies will have public profiles in Neighbors that users can visit to see their activity and posts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

As Facebook confronts outrage among its employees and the public for mishandling multiple decisions about its role in shaping public discourse, it is becoming clear that it cannot solve its conundrums without a major change in its business model. Neither law nor history requires this to be true. Brett Hurt. Contributor.

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The Verge

APRIL 5, 2021

We are on the right side of history and the right side of the law”. The group went public with an open letter that January, undersigned by more than 350 employees. It’s a moral victory,” Cunningham told the Times, “and really shows that we are on the right side of history and the right side of the law.”.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

VPNs, or virtual private networks, mask your IP address and the identity of your computer or mobile device on the network and creating an encrypted "tunnel" that prevents your internet service provider (ISP) from accessing data about your browsing history. VPNs are not a one-size-fits-all security solution, though. Are VPNs worth it?

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2022

Sara Eberle, vice president of global public relations at Sophos, was more forthcoming, telling The Verge that the company would fight the lawsuit: “Sophos prefers to compete in the marketplace rather than in the courtroom, but we will vigorously defend ourselves in this litigation,” Eberle said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

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. This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 25, 2021

Learn the History of Asian Racism to Understand Present-Day Intersectionality . Asian racism runs deep through Asian American history— from Asian labor in the Gold Rush to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and World War II Japanese internment camps to the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin. Photo Credit: Aaron Molo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

The points related to online tactics include such items as a web site privacy policy, sweepstakes, other privacy considerations such as HIPPA, and social media sites. Rosenthal educates about these laws and the implications for nonprofits in pretty clear langauage and points out that these laws apply to social media sites.

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The Verge

MARCH 7, 2022

A number of previous reports have implicated these companies in the past — for example, Luxshare and Lens Technology were both linked to forced labor in bombshell reports from The Information and The Washington Post , although those reports pertained to Apple’s questionable history of suppliers.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2021

The city of Baltimore’s spy plane program was unconstitutional, violating the Fourth Amendment protection against illegal search, and law enforcement in the city cannot use any of the data it gathered, a court ruled Thursday. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. That didn’t sit well with civil liberties activists.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Astro is terrible and will almost certainly throw itself down a flight of stairs if presented the opportunity,” one told the publication. (Oh, Amazon has an extremely shady history when it comes to surveillance. Looking at this history, I’m not sure why anyone would trust Amazon to oversee these sorts of systems.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2022

These include Twitter opening a local office in Nigeria, addressing concerns over its tax payments, and “managing prohibited publication in line with Nigerian law.”. Twitter will also “enroll Nigeria in its Partner Support and Law Enforcement Portals,” which gives police tools to request and retain data on users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

These Principles are meant to act as a guide for emerging legislation and as a call to the crowdfunding platforms to act in a fair, public-spirited way. Crowdfunding – broad, public, online fundraising campaigns – has emerged as an important vehicle for both donors and nonprofits. Background. Principles for Responsible Crowdfunding.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Uber has 30 days to pay a $59 million fine to California’s Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for failing to answer the regulator’s questions about a damning safety report released by the company in December 2019. Uber did not immediately respond to a request for comment. News of the fine was first reported by The San Francisco Chronicle.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

The MOVEit mass hacks will likely go down in history as one of the largest and most successful cyberattacks of all time. The attack exploited a zero-day vulnerability, which meant Progress was unaware of the flaw and did not have time to patch it in time, leaving its customers largely defenseless.

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