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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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. The labor rights movement took an especially public hit earlier this month when a push to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama overwhelmingly failed.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

As with the Cambridge Analytica scandal — another story about which the basic facts had long been known, but which suddenly roared back into the spotlight after fresh news reports — seismic shifts in public opinion forced Facebook to rethink long-held values. The ACLU won the case — and lost 30,000 outraged members in the process.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2017

An L3C, though, is a hybrid of an LLC and nonprofit business model, which is where an organization operates to benefit the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Other examples have included farmers’ markets, newspapers, law groups and art centers. Can I start an L3C? North Dakota. Rhode Island.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

While it was a rickety little thing that is clearly not at all ready for public use, the vehicle has got real gumption, and Haje, like me, really wants to love it. The layoffs are hitting every department with one major exception — manufacturing operations at its Normal, Illinois factory. Sono Motors’ solar EV is finally here!

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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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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Here’s why: Extra attention and spotlight thanks to high publicity around #GivingTuesday Plug-and-play tools and assets from GivingTuesday.org to help market your campaign More participants ultimately means more support for the nonprofit community overall. Public Relations And Outreach. No bells or whistles — just straightforward.

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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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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

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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

Being a mission ambassador, professional public speaker, fundraising auctioneer and nonprofit trainer, Erin utilizes a smart, eloquent, energetic approach to engaging donors in the event venue and changing trajectories for organizations in the board room. Based in Chicago, Chris conducts gala auctions all across Illinois and the nation.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 3, 2025

If NIA could provide coverage for the first two million dollars in limits without significant reliance on reinsurance, it would allow nonprofits themselves to determine which risks are acceptable, without any of the political or social action concerns that cause large public corporations to shy away from this business.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

This startup is turning up the heat : European smart thermostat startup Tado was planning to go public, but instead went after another round of funding, gathering up $46.9 The news comes as a surprise considering the rather dry public market activity in the tech world, Mary Ann and Natasha M report. million as it pursues profitability.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Given the complexity of the problem, many states and cities have found that the best solutions involve highly collaborative task forces that bring together nonprofit experts, policy makers, and public servants who are all dedicated to producing substantial change. preventive programs that can reduce the long-term burden on public.

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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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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. Without Arizona, the movement is that much weaker. So who killed HB2005?

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

This project represents the culmination of a collaborative, multi-year effort between researchers at Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A partial list of the sensitive characteristics in the dataset denoting their associations with adjectives and stereotypical associations.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

An unsubstantiated online theory has recently taken hold, claiming that family vloggers are fleeing Los Angeles to escape newly introduced California laws designed to protect children featured in online content. But the influencers themselves insist the moves have nothing to do with Californias new laws. million followers on TikTok.

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Engadget

MARCH 10, 2025

National chains There is no national electronics recycling law at this time, so you won't find any federal programs to assist you with getting rid of old devices. The USPS does run a program for federal agencies and their employees , but it's not available to the general public. Heres how to find places that will take your old gadgets.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. Others, such as President Trump’s Muslim ban, took a few tries — but eventually became law. Can’t wait!

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Across the country, the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law under then-President Joe Biden, is set to provide $5 billion to states for projects that expand the nations EV charging infrastructure. But in a Feb.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

He has since become a public school teacher. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Reported cases in Illinois: 79,123. Total test results (positive and negative) in Illinois: 442,425. I asked him what he thought of the payout he might now be eligible for. “I Governing. ?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 5, 2025

The Evanston effect Evanston, Illinois, launched the countrys first publicly funded housing reparations program in 2019. The goal is to redress the harm Evanston caused during these 50-plus years of racial discrimination in public schools, hospitals, buses, and segregated residential zoning.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Congress may begin writing letters , and new laws will be proposed, so that such a bad post never again appears on the internet. Law enforcement eventually will? Let’s make it more complex: Scarborough is a public figure — a former congressman, no less. Reported cases in Illinois: 113,402. Trump added. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

Let’s conclude what turned out to be Free Speech Week on The Interface with a look at a case involving the co-chairman of Facebook’s new Oversight Board, a Zoom recording of his law school class, and the N-word. Here’s Nick Anderson in the Washington Post : Stanford University law professor Michael W. Data from The New York Times.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. ” According to the press release, there was no complaint from the public against Townstone but the company was drawn out of hat by a computer model run by “DEI-driven bureaucrats.” What was the original case about?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 2, 2025

Despite the millions he spent on Schimel, as of late Tuesday night the Supreme Court candidate was losing by four percentage points more than the other Republican-backed statewide candidate, Brittany Kinser, who also fell short in her bid for superintendent of public instruction. “Please send @elonmusk to all the close races!”

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The Verge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Pennsylvania’s unorthodox Lieutenant Governor has established himself as a kind of unofficial spokesman for the state’s efforts to legalize the drug, both in his public statements and on his Twitter feed. Sales of marijuana in Illinois are likely to surpass $1 billion in 2020 , state officials say. It’s really the perfect time for it.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

And then, over the weekend, the long-standing norm that Facebook employees never criticize their employer in public seemed to shatter, tweet by tweet. One source told me the internal furor over Joel Kaplan’s public support of controversial Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh during his nomination hearings had been markedly more intense.)

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

antitrust law,” Yale University economics professor Fiona Scott Morton, the chief economist in the Justice Department’s antitrust division from 2011-2012, wrote in a new academic paper entitled “Roadmap for a Digital Advertising Monopolization Case Against Google.”. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

As I reported on Thursday, the decision sparked an unusual amount of internal dissent among employees , and on Monday it spilled over into public with a virtual walkout of a few hundred employees. Zuckerberg thinks that Facebook keeping the Trump posts up likely damaged public perception of the company. The pessimist may not.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

Spiegel’s memo, which Snap later made public, also came as the big social companies were reckoning over what to do about President Donald Trump’s increasingly bellicose posts about voting by mail and peaceful protesters. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ??Trending Sorry for the mistake!

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

After increasing warehouse workers’ pay in recognition of the increased risks they faced by simply coming in to do their jobs — and routinely calling them “heroes” in public communications — Amazon said Wednesday that their $2 per hour hazard pay would go away in June. Reported cases in Illinois: 83,168. Data from The New York Times.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

That’s the irony of all this,” said Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford University law professor who studies technology and democracy. Other public officials have lost similar lawsuits from constituents. It’s really not clear that you can change 230 (which is part of a law, let’s remember) without congressional approval. Governing. ?

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

The company gave them a variety of executives to speak with on and off the record, including Joel Kaplan, its vice president of global public policy, who often pops up in stories like this to complain that some action might disproportionately hurt conservatives. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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