The Verge

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Clearview, which claims to have scraped 10 billion images of people from social media sites in order to identify them in other photos, sells its technology to law enforcement agencies. The agency says it is “considering its next steps and any formal regulatory action that may be appropriate under the UK data protection laws.”.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2020

The transparency activist organization Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) has been formally designated as a “criminal hacker group,” following the publication of 296 gigabytes of sensitive law enforcement data earlier this summer, known colloquially as “BlueLeaks.”

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The Verge

DECEMBER 28, 2020

AT&T is also suspending data overage charges across parts of Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, and Missouri over the final five days of December. Federal law enforcement named 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner as the bomber, and they’ve reported that Warner died in the explosion.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Commissioner Daniel Therrien said what Clearview does — scraping photos from social media and other public sites for use by law enforcement — is “illegal” and creates a system that “inflicts broad-based harm on all members of society, who find themselves continually in a police lineup.”.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The technology is allegedly less accurate when identifying people of color and women , potentially leading to false arrests when used by law enforcement agencies. Last year, the company said that its technology was used by over 2,400 police agencies — including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security — to identify suspects.

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The Verge

JANUARY 29, 2021

Students head to class at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. | The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign announced that it will discontinue its use of remote-proctoring software Proctorio after its summer 2021 term. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

The complaints filed in France, Austria, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom say that the company’s method of documenting and collecting data — including images of faces it automatically extracts from public websites — violates European privacy laws. Clearview also faced legal action in Vermont, New York and California.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

IDAC sent letters to the FTC, Google, and the attorney general of Illinois, where Premom is based, earlier this month. Since users had no way to opt out of the tracking and were not aware it was even happening, IDAC says the practice could violate state and federal law. It’s also a violation of Google’s rules as well.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The move follows a lawsuit that accused Facebook’s tagging tech of violating Illinois’ biometric privacy law, leading to a $650 million settlement in February. US law enforcement agencies (alongside other government divisions) work with Clearview AI and other companies for facial recognition-powered surveillance.

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The Verge

AUGUST 5, 2021

Once an alert is generated, it is reviewed by Apple and NCMEC before alerting law enforcement, providing an additional safeguard against the system being used to detect non-CSAM content.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2021

The policy says TikTok will seek consent from users before collecting this information, but only when it is required to do so by the law. As TechCrunch notes, this doesn’t mean an awful lot in the US, given that only a few states (including Illinois, Texas, and California) offer these sorts of legal protections.

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2022

In December, OSHA opened an investigation into the collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Illinois that killed six workers as a tornado ripped through the Midwest. Update March 27th 5:46PM ET: Updated to add context surrounding the Amazon warehouse collapse in Edwardsville, Illinois.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Matthew Walker: S2G Ventures managing director of food and agriculture Matthew Walker has more than 10 years of experience in venture capital, investment banking and securities law. He is also a member of the Illinois Board of Trustees of the Nature Conservancy. TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 takes place in San Francisco on September 19–21.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

All the other biometrics that are becoming commonplace — face, fingerprints, iris — are all quite observable and visible from the outside,” Elizabeth Renieris, a law and policy researcher who focuses on data governance and human rights issues, told The Verge. There’s definitely something to say for the advanced security [of palm scanning].”.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The tragic collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois during last week’s historic tornado outbreak in the Midwest is raising questions about the safety of the e-commerce giant’s packing facilities and the policies and protocols Amazon has in place to protect workers during disasters. Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

What are the laws on the books? We tried to be nice about it, but electric scooters were banned in Illinois and New York. .” Tusk advises startups to answer the following questions when launching into a regulated market. It may be that your thing is completely legal, allowed or somewhere gray.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 3, 2025

Work to create a fairer judicial environment for nonprofits NIA has been working for several years to help pass common-sense laws in the most problematic states to help level the playing field so that nonprofits are not being held accountable for things over which they have no control.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

A Seattle group was hijacked last year, and, according to news reports, the administrators struggled to get the attention of Facebook or law enforcement until someone offered to connect them with a Meta employee, who was able to help restore access. The group admins didn’t respond to inquiries from Fast Company.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

states are passing privacy and security laws aimed at protecting people’s data. The California Consumer Privacy Act is perhaps the best known, followed by the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the New York Privacy Act and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act. Increasingly, absent a federal framework, U.S.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Attending a session with an interesting topic (intellectual property law, anyone?) She previously served as Heartland Alliance’s first Manager of Interactive and New Media and as Director of Technology and Membership for the ACLU of Illinois. After a couple of sessions, you’ll start to see some familiar faces, which is great!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

Based in Chicago, Chris conducts gala auctions all across Illinois and the nation. He is currently licensed in Illinois and Florida. Tom is also a sought-after speaker, advocate, and commentator who was recently named to City & State’s Law Power 100.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

passed laws to reduce sales of super-greenhouse gas refrigerants in the U.S. To investigate this, I talked to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign mechanical engineering professor Pega Hrnjak , who has spent the last 30 years studying technologies for refrigeration and air-conditioning. In 2021, the U.S. by 85% by 2036.

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The Verge

MAY 24, 2021

And despite two officers showing up at his front door with the cohort, neither of them, nor anyone else in the cohort, accused McDaniel of breaking the law. Regardless, people on the forefront of law enforcement technology eventually began to see pre-crime, person-based predictive policing as a real-world possibility.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

European legislators recently passed new rules that would require businesses to label the carbon footprints of their batteries and use a minimum amount of recycled raw materials eight years after the law comes into effect, Reuters reported. Construction of two US factories in Illinois and Michigan is also in the pipeline.

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

The National Labor Relations Board ultimately ruled that Musk’s comments should be considered union-busting and broke the law. Rivian, which is backed by Amazon and is the most well-funded of the bunch, is supposed to start assembling its electric pickup truck and SUV at a former Mitsubishi plant it bought in Normal, Illinois.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

States including Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Maine, and many others have developed task forces on government contracting. exceed $37,000 per year with ER visits, public assistance programs, law. Our community cannot afford even one more. homeless family; it is more proactive and cost-effective to focus on. family becomes homeless.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2017

Other examples have included farmers’ markets, newspapers, law groups and art centers. This is one of the requirements for L3Cs the law puts forth for this business model. Though L3Cs are socially conscious, they’re not tax-exempt , and donations and investments are not tax-deductible. Can I start an L3C? North Dakota. Rhode Island.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In 1978, the American Civil Liberties Union famously defended the rights of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois , which was home to many Holocaust survivors. Banning Holocaust denial doesn’t make it go away — Germany does so by law, and far-right forces are still on the rise there ( and preaching the gospel of QAnon , to boot).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

The license plate is how law enforcement recognizes compliance with your vehicle,” Boston explains. I’m working with law enforcement,” Boston lists off, explaining the breadth and depth of the company’s moat. For government vehicles, the plates are also legal in Colorado, Illinois, Georgia and Florida.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2021

When developing a strategy, essential considerations include the nonprofit’s mission, available resources, desired outcomes, stakeholders, external environment, and laws and restrictions. The most effective of these strategies utilize a combination of tactics that work both inside and outside of the political system. An effective agenda….

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

The layoffs are hitting every department with one major exception — manufacturing operations at its Normal, Illinois factory. Ford released the law enforcement version of its all-electric F-150 Lightning truck. Sono Motors’ solar EV is finally here! Well, sort of; there’s the sticky business of production to contend with.

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The Verge

MARCH 31, 2021

The bill , which would have allowed alternative payment systems on Android and iOS that bypass the stores’ 30 percent cuts, mysteriously disappeared last week prior to a scheduled vote that could have sent it straight to the governor’s desk to be signed into law.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

Willie Cade was also involved in the creation of the Illinois Electronic Waste Recycling Act , which is the model US recycling law with a defined flow of material that is designated for reuse and refurbishment. PCRR of course is R2 certified like our other refurbishment partners.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2019

Why does an EU law have such a monumental effect on privacy globally? Second, as the strictest privacy law in the world to date, it has become the gold standard for privacy frameworks. These events all pale in comparison, though, to the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) in the European Union.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

SOS Children’s Villages Illinois acquired 75% of their new donors for the entire year with their year-end peer-to-peer fundraising campaign. Other Examples: An Annual Giving Campaign, like National Center for Youth Law did $10k for a new Alzheimer’s research project Raise $25,000 to fill a new school library.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

Governor Schwarzenegger signed the California State Divestment Bill into law, and from there Adam took the campaign nationally. I first worked as an outreach coordinator for the Great Lakes region, which is six states: Illinois, Ohio, and a bunch of others around there. His campaign was successful. It is cool to see that happening.

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Tableau

MAY 3, 2021

Their ongoing efforts focus on breaking down the direct line from school to prison that forms when students are referred to law enforcement from an early age, and investing funds in resources that improve students’ experience. White students are most likely to attend school in districts with no referrals to law enforcement or arrests.

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