TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For the past three years, UpCodes and its founders have been entangled in a copyright lawsuit filed by the International Code Council (ICC). ” Can the law be copyrighted? Public.Resource.org , which stemmed from another case involving copyright and the law.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

Nathan Parcells is co-founder and CMO of InternMatch , an online platform connecting the best intern candidates and employers. The past year was eventful for a number of reasons, including new iPhones , next-gen consoles, and intern lawsuits. Compensating your interns for their hard work isn’t a foreign concept.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

Two days ago, on Tuesday, June 10, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made a major ruling that emphasizes the legality of fair use for book digitization. copyright law). copyright law). copyright law, also known as the Chafee Amendment. In Authors Guild v.

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The Verge

MARCH 22, 2021

The suit covers anyone who purchased an Apple MacBook with a butterfly keyboard in seven states: California, New York, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, Washington, and Michigan. A judge has certified a class action suit against Apple for its fragile butterfly keyboard design. it’s still ugly.”.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

I'm not a woman, but I am a wholehearted celebrant of International Women's Day. More About International Women's Day. International Women's Day came about in its current form in 1975. women became the majority of law students. International NGO Leadership. Law and Advocacy. Last year, U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In a statement, Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis said, “The Bahamas and the United States have a shared interest in holding accountable all individuals associated with FTX who may have betrayed the public trust and broken the law. Government, based on a sealed indictment filed by the SDNY.”

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2021

a threat to “the rules-based international order”. Citizen Lab previously found evidence linking the Pegasus spyware to the killing of Jamal Khashoggi and a separate campaign against a New York Times journalist. In both cases, traces of Pegasus spyware were found on the targets’ devices.

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The Verge

APRIL 4, 2022

The labor laws that we’re using here might not apply so much somewhere else.”. Unlike Alabama, New York has a strong union tradition that many of the workers were likely familiar with, said James Williams, Jr., general president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT).

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 25, 2010

As the New York Times reported , late last week: The new law, embedded in the 393 pages of the Pension Protection Act of 2006, also directed the Internal Revenue Service to revoke the tax exemptions of groups that failed to file for three consecutive years.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The bill passed the Australian House of Representatives today and is believed to have enough votes to pass the Senate, The New York Times reported. However, Google has since decided to start cutting deals with major Australian media organizations, like Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. ,

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Delta Airlines said in a pair of internal memos to employees this week that it’s asked competitors to share their no-fly lists, to try to keep passengers who cause disturbances on planes from bringing their mayhem to other airlines. Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

An email sent to Jeff Bezos from an Amazon warehouse worker began an internal investigation that found that the e-commerce giant falls behind when it comes to supporting its 1.3 million employees, according to The New York Time s. You can go read the New York Times article right now.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The company’s shares will be listed as DASH on the New York Stock Exchange. Under “factors affecting our performance,” the company says its rapid growth strained its IT and accounting systems, processes, and personnel, and an independent auditor found “material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting.”

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

Privacy International (PI) and several other European privacy and digital rights organizations announced today that they’ve filed legal complaints against the controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI. New York-based Clearview claims to have built “the largest known database of 3+ billion facial images.”.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Amazon is announcing a one-year moratorium on allowing law enforcement to use its controversial Rekognition facial recognition platform, the e-commerce giant said on Wednesday. The issues lie in part with the data sets used to train the systems, which can be overwhelmingly male and white, according to a report from The New York Times. “We

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This article is for the overworked techie in charge of all of the digital things who just panicked that it is 2020 and there are new privacy laws. There are two new major online privacy policy changes coming in 2020, the CCPA in California and SHIELD act in New York.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The former employees also provided internal Amazon information that allowed attacks on other third-party sellers and their accounts, including flooding the sellers’ product listings with fake negative reviews, authorities said.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. In May of 2018, the European Union law called that Genera l Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect. General Data Protection Regulation.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Judges hear and decide cases based on their general understanding of the law. Sometimes a case — like a malpractice suit or a labor dispute — requires special expertise, so judges send court clerks to a law library, looking for precedents and specific cases they can cite. RAG doesn’t require a data center.

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The Verge

APRIL 4, 2022

Amazon reportedly plans to add a content filter to an internal messaging app in the making and would ban words that reflect the company’s working conditions or pertain to organizing a union, according to internal documents obtained by The Intercept. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2021

Cellphone towers are being increasingly targeted by conspiracy theorists, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists who wish to “incite fear, disrupt essential services, and cause economic damage,” according to an internal New York Police Department report seen by The Intercept.

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BoardAssist

JULY 30, 2014

Is your New York nonprofit ready for the new Nonprofit Revitalization Act? Are you familiar with the requirements of the new Act? The New York Nonprofit Revitalization Act became effective on July 1, so sharpen your pencils and see how many boxes you can check on this compliance list. Annual audit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

After graduating with a BFA in drama & music from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ellen spent ten years bringing joy to audiences nightly as one of only ten lead performers in the longest running musical revue in the world—San Francisco’s “Beach Blanket Babylon.” You were born to do this!”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In response to the allegations, Luckin said in April it would launch an internal probe. Luckin neither admitted nor denied these claims, which were filed in a court in the Southern District of New York. In June, the SEC said it would delist Luckin , and in July, Luckin admitted it did cook its books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. This first grant allowed us to pilot a Bookshare outreach project in the New York metro area, with a de facto focus on senior citizens with vision loss. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Cillian Kieran is CEO and co-founder of Ethyca , a New York-based privacy company. “A A new law to follow” seems unlikely to have featured on many business wishlists this holiday season, particularly if that law concerned data privacy. Cillian Kieran. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As a result, CNIL is calling on Clearview to purge the data from its systems or face escalating fines as laid out by European privacy law. Clearview rose to prominence in 2020 after a New York Times investigation highlighted the company’s massive data collection efforts. Clearview has contested the order.)

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Reddit will double the number of employees it has over the course of this year to around 1,400 after raising $250 million in a new funding round, the company has announced. Over 600 are based in the US, according to CNBC , where it has offices in San Francisco, New York, LA, and Chicago. Reddit recently acquired Dubsmash.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 24, 2021

International trade with Xinjiang is restricted by numerous governments including the US over Chinese treatment of the region’s minority Muslim Uyghur population. A New York Times investigation in 2020 found that chips made by Intel were being used to power supercomputers deployed by the Chinese government for Uyghur surveillance.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Andrea D'Ambra is a partner in Norton Rose Fulbright’s New York office and the U.S. Startup teams, legal counsel and other internal stakeholders looking to address these legal challenges should consider three key factors impacting the sector. Share on Twitter. head of Technology and the U.S. Susana Medeiros. Contributor.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

A group of three Amazon warehouse employees who work out of the company’s New York fulfillment centers have filed a lawsuit alleging the company put them and their families at risk of COVID-19 infection, according to a report from Bloomberg. The lawsuit, filed in New York, is not seeking damages for illness or death, Bloomberg reports.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

.” The good news: Many more new jobs are expected to come online to fill, which should bode well for Vangst when the labor market finds its footing again. Last fall, New Jersey also signed into law three bills that permit and regulate the use of recreational marijuana, and businesses are already opening up there.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

And Brexit is helping: The Dutch are highly proficient in English and Dutch law is similar to English law, which means U.K.-based While taxes are high, entrepreneurs won’t find the staggering income inequality so often seen in cities like San Francisco and New York. based tech founders are welcomed with open arms.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Dear Sophie, A few years ago, I moved my startup’s headquarters to New York from Estonia on an E-2 investor visa. Sophie Alcorn.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 17, 2022

It emphasizes why direct action to break unjust laws is needed, rather than waiting for justice or equality to arrive. Nonviolent resistance to unjust laws eventually influenced the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me is a New York Times bestseller, written as a letter to his teenage son.

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

McGruder, the Ford Foundation’s Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer, oversees Ford’s global operations and finances for its offices in New York, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. McGruder is also the founder and president of Moms of Black Boys United and M.O.B.B. The Vision to Supporting Impact at Scale . With M.O.B.B.

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