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The Road to Accessibility without Borders: Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Marrakesh Treaty

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities. HathiTrust.

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Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists targeted in apparent iOS spyware attack

The Verge

The Guardian reports that the software has allegedly been used to target journalists in Morocco, as well as political dissidents from Rwanda and Spanish politicians.

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Social media giants urged to tackle data-scraping privacy risks

TechCrunch

. “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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How African startups raised investments in 2020

TechCrunch

It’s a trend that may well continue as most foreign VCs prefer African startups to be incorporated in countries with business-friendly investment laws. He adds the likes of Tunisia, Morocco, Rwanda as second-tier countries quickly entering global investors’ radar and building more sophisticated ecosystems.

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NSO’s Pegasus spyware: here’s what we know

The Verge

The company describes the role of its products on its website as helping “government intelligence and law-enforcement agencies use technology to meet the challenges of encryption” during terrorism and criminal investigations. According to NSO, it builds Pegasus solely for use in counterterrorism and law enforcement work.

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Chinese battery maker Gotion begins production at first EU factory

TechNode

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. Gotion also plans to build a $6.3

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Just three years ago, negotiators from around the world converged on Marrakesh, Morocco, to hash out a final deal. Today, the Marrakesh Treaty has been ratified by more than thirty countries, and went into international effect and law as of last year. It was highly controversial. And, the U.S. Senate just ratified the Treaty!