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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard University, and he developed it with his fellow students and friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. students at Stanford University. In May of 2018, the European Union law called that Genera l Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect.

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Tesla faces criticism of Elon Musk in bid to bring Cybertruck factory to Texas

The Verge

billion tax incentive package the company received for its Gigafactory in Nevada , or the hundreds of millions of dollars SolarCity got for its factory in New York before merging with Tesla. The tax rebates being discussed in Texas are, to date, far less significant than the $1.3

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Vangst ropes in $19 million more to place employees with work in the growing cannabis industry

TechCrunch

Lawrence University — Vangst currently features 500 “gigs” per week that the platform takes on average 48 hours to fill. 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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Reviver is building a company one licence plate at a time

TechCrunch

” It’s a perfect storm, in a way: Old systems ripe for modernization, run by an almost universally hated institution. The license plate is how law enforcement recognizes compliance with your vehicle,” Boston explains. Surely, there has to be a better way? . “And it’s not just here in the States.

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Humans@Work: How to Successfully Tackle HR Challenges

Top Nonprofits

Harassment, in the legal sense, is “a word that people throw around a bit too easily” says Jennifer Rodriquez, a labor and employment attorney with the Dallas based law firm Culhane Meadows. The law safeguards people from harassment based on race, age, and gender. Some jurisdictions have laws protecting employees’ political expression.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

Webby Special Achievement: Dr. Tatiana Prowell of Johns Hopkins University. Webby People’s Voice Award for Humor : The Far Side by Andrews McMeel Universal. Webby Award for Law : Knight First Amendment Institute Website by Tierra Innovation. Webby People’s Voice Award for Law : Urban Justice Center by Superunion.

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Despite global headwinds, Chinese hardware startups remain to take on the world

TechCrunch

We were in his small, modest office in Xili, a university area in Shenzhen that’s also home to many hardware makers. The tech industry comes to grips with Hong Kong’s national security law. “We are not really aiming at Chinese consumers at this point,” said Zhang, who started Balanx in 2014.

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