The Verge

MARCH 18, 2021

An anonymous federal law enforcement official told The Intercept that while threats to infrastructure were not unusual, it was strange to see three grouped together in such a short time. Dozens of sites were targeted by arson attacks in the UK, Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, and beyond.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

One point worth noting is that Charles has specifically built its platform with Europe’s data privacy laws (i.e. ” Although Charles has seen the most traction in its domestic German market, it has already seen some inbound interest from Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and the U.K. GDPR) firmly in mind.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

based universities, Bocconi University in Italy, a European law firm and other clients. At the law firm, DigestAI is testing a tool that allows associates to text a WhatsApp number to quickly brush up on legal terms. . “Our goal is to work with universities like Stanford,” Pativada said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

SWVL is present in 13 markets globally: the UAE, Egypt, Kenya, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Japan, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Pakistan. Others include developing its proprietary technology stack and growing its three models — where it makes $5 million in MRR — across existing and new markets, it said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

The cuts will be mainly of staff in its Berlin HQ and represent about half of Gorillas’ employees, many of whom would have only joined in the last six months (and therefore still on ‘probation’ and so easier to made redundant under German labor laws).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

” The bill will now go in front of parliament, and if passed, any violation of the law in the future could result in fines of up to €60,000, or about $65,000.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Italy specifically saw the biggest drop at 90 percent. Healthcare: We are giving each impacted employee as many continued benefits as possible, in accordance with local law. In April, Waze laid out in a blog post just how severely some of those numbers are falling. The US was also down by about 60 percent.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

According to Yang, today Alipay+ connects over 20 payment apps from Thailand to Italy, allowing consumers to use their familiar e-wallets wherever they go. You cant have true innovation at scale if the platform is insecure and if youre not compliant with the laws and regulations of the land, Badi added. Read more here.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Vu’s passion to make the world better, combined with a low score on the Law School Admission Test, drove him into the field of nonprofit work, where he learned that we should take the work seriously, but not ourselves. There’s tons of humor in the nonprofit world, and someone needs to document it.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Further, differences in the law in some countries can result in you spending significant money for little gain. Each of these inventions may need its own patent application, which can quickly multiply the cost to your business and make filing for patent protection prohibitively expensive.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But as critics are discovering, the law is giving Proctorio an unexpected advantage, allowing the company to shut down criticisms by appealing to copyright law. +. Linkletter’s experience is just one of a string of high-profile spats involving Proctorio, as teachers and students call out what they see as invasive tracking.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 29, 2022

Along those same lines, using a VPN to unblock streaming services like Netflix from a country where it's not available isn't technically against the law, but it is a violation of the company's terms of use — i.e., you may get slapped with a warning or error message if caught. Let's not get too brazen, here. Choosing a VPN can be tricky.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

The Uber Files, which were originally shared with The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , show a company that has knowingly broken laws, gone to extreme lengths to avoid justice, secretly lobbied governments, received aid from top politicians and exploited violence against drivers to drum up business.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 1, 2013

The Blueprint returns to the need for the laws and regulations to catch up to the new paradigm. She has studied the social economy in summer schools at the University of Bologna, European Summer School on the Social Economy as well as the EMES European Research network in Italy. This is not seen as a negative. Like this article?

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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. Subsequent reporting showed the company’s deep ties to right-wing political activism and widespread use within US law enforcement. Clearview has contested the order.)

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

The Swedes have the law of Jante , the Anglo-sphere has Tall poppy syndrome , but us Dutch have a saying that epitomizes our exaggerated egalitarian desires: “Act normal, that is strange enough.” But our trust is rooted in the security of strong institutions and the rule of law. It is a sober protestant version of “keeping it real.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The European Commission has also proposed a sweeping reform of the regional rulebook for digital services , which includes a requirement for regulatory oversight of key decision-making algorithms with the aim of shrinking the risk of negative impacts such as bias and discrimination — although any new laws are likely still years out.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The relevant laws here are the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies when personal data is processed and gives people a suite of rights over what’s done with their information; and the ePrivacy Directive, an older piece of pan-EU legislation which deals with privacy in electronic comms. Funny that!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

On July 1, 2021 there was a big change in the European Union’s Value Added Tax (VAT) law, impacting online retailers, marketplaces and their e-commerce businesses across the EU. But EU member states realized a few years ago that EU VAT law was no longer on track with the developments taking place in the e-commerce ecosystem.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 21, 2025

Italy is using its Piracy Shield law to go after Google, with a court ordering the Internet giant to immediately begin poisoning its public DNS servers. Regardless, Italy's communication regulator praises the ruling and hopes to continue sticking it to international tech firms.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

It alleges that those responsible violated Italy's laws banning the "illicit installation" of eavesdropping equipment. Italy Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaking in Parliament in Rome. However, he insisted the law was "rigorously respected." The company has since released a fix to prevent future uses of the exploit.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

The current economic reality can be even more disheartening for families: Based on a recent analysis by the National Womens Law Center, the average family would need to earn at least $180,000 annually in 2025 to comfortably afford the national cost of infant care. Australia France Italy Japan Mexico Spain Germany New Zealand

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

. “In most jurisdictions, personal information that is ‘publicly available’, ‘publicly accessible’ or ‘of a public nature’ on the internet, is subject to data protection and privacy laws,” they write. So decisions on the core legality of tools like ChatGPT remains pending in the EU.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

We went and had a victory party and then woke up the next day and realized that it didn't really matter because the company that wanted to build had gone to the state legislature to get them to pass a law to undercut the local ordinance that would protect our water. And I started working with a community outside of St.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

South Korean officials on Saturday announced a temporary suspension of downloading the DeepSeek app until it complies with local data protection laws under the country's Personal Information Protection Act. The PIPC said it will unblock downloads on local app stores once DeepSeek "meets the requirements of domestic protection laws."

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

The lawsuit alleged that the social network “fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical ‘compositions, violating Publishers’ and others’ exclusive rights under copyright law.” It added that, unlike its competitors TikTok and Instagram, Twitter hasn’t struck a music licensing deal for the use of copyrighted music.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

April 12, 2023 Italy gives OpenAI to-do list for lifting ChatGPT suspension order Italy’s data protection watchdog has laid out what OpenAI needs to do for it to lift an order against ChatGPT issued at the end of last month — when it said it suspected the AI chatbot service was in breach of the EU’s GSPR and ordered the U.S.

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Engadget

MARCH 21, 2025

European copyright law says the company must pay publishers for using snippets from articles, and Google will likely use the data to try to kneecap news outlets' negotiating leverage. "During The results are in, and the survey says the news has no meaningful monetary value for the company. percent drop in usage. . "The

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The Verge

JANUARY 22, 2022

Reportedly, Intel will start its European expansion in France, Germany, and Italy. “We To win Intel’s interest, Ohio also had to change its laws to offer job creation tax credits for 30 years instead of 15 years to big developments like Intel’s. Image: Intel. The shape of Intel’s initial plans in Ohio.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

He said the ban seeks to regulate the exchange of “informational materials” — something that’s expressly exempted from the law laying out the emergency powers Trump invoked. The pandemic allowed Amazon to gain a foothold in Italy, where people have historically preferred to shop in-person with cash. Dan Primack / Axios ). Industry. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

They’re encouraging people to post disinformation in the groups, find “incriminating” information that they can pass to law enforcement, and find as much personal identifying information as possible. The company says it is still testing the feature, which is also available to users in Brazil and Italy. Ali Breland / Mother Jones ).

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The court ultimately sided with Chat Cola, determining there were enough subtle differences in the can designs that it didn’t violate copyright law. In the Salfit warehouse, drivers loaded family size packages of soda into trucks bound not only for the West Bank but also for Tel Aviv, Haifa and other cities in Israel.

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