The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

Photo by Jacob King/PA Images via Getty Images. The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has made 746 arrests and dismantled dozens of organized crime groups after intercepting millions of encrypted text messages, BBC reports. European law enforcement agencies appear to have been monitoring these conversations for months.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Of course, it’s nice to have a national holiday so we can celebrate a little louder than usual. On August 17, 1894, the Tariff Act was signed into law, which included exemptions for nonprofit organizations. National Nonprofit Day gives us a moment to pause and reflect on the incredible work nonprofits do every day. Conclusion.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. They’re asking a court to prevent the law from taking effect, calling it a “frontal assault on the First Amendment.”. The law is crony capitalism masquerading as consumer protection,” said NetChoice vice president and general counsel Carl Szabo in a statement.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

On Christmas Day Randi posted a family photo on Facebook. Shortly after posting someone posted the photo to Twitter. She asked the person to remove the photo from Twitter. When you set photos to only be available to friends, you’re not really setting them to be viewed only by friends. Boy was she wrong.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Robert Julian-Borchak Williams, an African American man, was arrested after a facial recognition system falsely matched his photo with security footage of a shoplifter. But its use by law enforcement has grown even more controversial in recent weeks following nationwide protests against police brutality and racism.

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. An AT&T policy that bars employees from recording conversations with managers or colleagues is legal, according to a ruling from the National Labor Relations Board Monday. The NLRB found that Davis was engaged in protected union activity.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images. The company and its parent Live Nation admitted to hiring a former employee from rival ticket seller CrowdSurge, then using his knowledge — including old usernames and passwords — to learn CrowdSurge’s inner workings and “cut [the company] off at the knees.”.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images. Google violated US labor laws by spying on workers who were organizing employee protests, then firing two of them, according to a complaint to be filed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today.

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JUNE 5, 2023

In the United States, only approximately four states have a law prohibiting marriage under the age of 18. Someone under the age of 18 who is in a battered or abusive situation is still a minor in the eyes of the law, even when they are married,” Allison explained. Each year, 12 million girls are married before they turn 18.

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2021

Twitter has reinstated the accounts of several politicians in India’s opposition party, which were suspended after party leader Rahul Gandhi tweeted a photo of himself with the parents of a girl who was allegedly raped and murdered in New Delhi, Reuters reported.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

Photo: New America / Flickr. Tim Wu — the Columbia law professor who coined the term “net neutrality” — is joining the Biden administration , where he’ll be working on technology and competition policy at the National Economic Council.

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The Verge

MARCH 22, 2021

Photo by An Rong Xu for the Washington Post. In 2017, Khan authored an article for the Yale Law Journal titled “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” which exploded in popularity in progressive economic policy circles.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI has been ordered to destroy all images and facial templates belonging to individuals living in Australia by the country’s national privacy regulator. 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

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Photo by AL DRAGO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images. On its fourth page, the bill outlines what would qualify as felony behavior under the law. Here’s a statement from Tillis’ office describing the purpose of the legislation: The Protecting Lawful Streaming Act will apply only to commercial, for-profit streaming piracy services.

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The Verge

AUGUST 5, 2021

The program announced today will apply the same scans to user images stored in iCloud Photos, even if the images are never sent to another user or otherwise shared. threshold of matches is exceeded for an iCloud Photos account. Photo: Apple. database. The risk of the system incorrectly flagging an account is extremely low.

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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

MARCH 31, 2022

A major responsibility for tech companies is to monitor content on their platforms for child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and if any is found, they are legally required to report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2012

It was an one pager, stating violence in Nigeria facts and showing very graphic photos of victims of violence. I silently stared at the photos while she also dug out from her phone a photo of a woman who had been gang raped and ripped up from her navel to her back.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Andy Biggs (R-AZ) wrote to the new National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, asking her to take measures to thwart the UKs surveillance order including limiting cooperation and intelligence sharing if the country refuses to comply. The Washington Post reported on Thursday that, in a rare show of modern Capitol Hill bipartisanship, Sen.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Photo: DoorDash. It was the latest legal challenge targeting a gig economy company in California since the passage of the state’s first-in-the-nation worker misclassification law. Misclassifying workers deprives them of the labor law safeguards to which they are entitled”.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2021

Photo by Visual China Group / Getty Images. In China, video game addiction prevention is literally the law of the land, one that’s been evolving for many years but recently hit some important milestones. Video game addiction prevention is already the law of the land. That’s a lot of controversial concepts in one sentence, no?

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The Verge

JULY 23, 2021

Photo by Ryan Loughlin. Every single recreational pilot in the US needs to take it ASAP If you’ve flown a drone for fun in the USA anytime in the past month, chances are you were breaking the law. Proactively stay away from any aircraft with an actual pilot; emergency response, law enforcement, etc. An FPV headset by DJI.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Photo by Kimberly White / Getty Images for TechCrunch. Hours earlier, news broke about the National Labor Relations Board filing a complaint against Google for firing two workers last year in the wake of employee organizing efforts.

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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

APRIL 22, 2022

Florida’s governor has signed a bill stripping Disney of its special tax status in the state | Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images. The move is widely viewed as retaliation against Disney for its criticism of the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, a position DeSantis took umbrage at. Florida Gov.

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The Verge

MAY 7, 2021

Photo by Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images. Local law enforcement said there was no one in the driver’s seat at the time of the crash, leading to speculation that the men were misusing Autopilot. The comments came from a memo released by legal transparency group PlainSite , which obtained the documents from a public records request.

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2021

Photo: Blizzard. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found earlier this year that Google “arguably violated” labor law by firing several other organizers as well. Now Blizzard, the studio at the center of many of those specific allegations, is giving the protest its blessing. They left , or got pushed out of the company.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

Photo illustration by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images. Uber has finally recognized a union of its own drivers. Allow yourself that single moment of elation before we get to the rest of the details. Still, a win is a win.

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As an independent territory of the United States, the schools of Puerto Rico are subject to the same federal laws and IDEA initiatives as every school in the 50 states. One of the teachers enjoyed the training so much that he gave me his Puerto Rican national baseball cap! This photo was taken in a library in San Juan.

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JUNE 28, 2005

Photos of the slides. I was particularly eager to hear the afternoon lecture , Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation , by Charles Nesson at iLaw. Taking that process from individual level and extrapolating to national level."

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

According to the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, new restrictions have been enacted that will make it harder for more than five million eligible voters in states that will provide 171 electoral votes – nearly two-thirds of the votes needed to win the Presidency.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Patrick described the field as a pyramid, with grassroots groups on the front lines at the base, gathering the stories of abuses first and second-hand, with larger and larger groups going up until you reached the top of the pyramid with the United Nations, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2022

Photo by Visual China Group via Getty Images/Visual China Group via Getty Images. This stipulation is required by US law as part of trading sanctions against China for its ongoing persecution of the Xinjiang region’s Uyghur population (which the US government has designated a genocide ).

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In his last semester at college, in between studying labor law and environmental impact assessment, Alex Elderbroom took a class on something very different: how to build a tiny house. Photo: courtesy Paul Smith’s College] He had some construction experience, but others started from scratch.

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APRIL 24, 2025

Photo: M3Media Productions] Stuller learned the news at the same time as the rest of the community, but he was even more in the dark: Still relatively new to the town, he didn’t know Timex was located there, or about its unique headquarters. To build the distribution center, the Timex building would have to be torn down.

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The Verge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images. But new research from Harvard Law School suggests these supposedly “zero emissions” vehicles could actually exacerbate many of the problems we are facing today. For years, we’ve been told that electric autonomous taxis can help fight climate change by reducing air pollution.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

The company has promoted encrypted messaging across its ecosystem, encouraged limits on how mobile apps can gather data, and fought law enforcement agencies looking for user records. What does Apple’s new iCloud Photos scanning system do? But in a call with reporters, it said it’s never scanned iCloud Photos data. (It

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