TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Adam Sanitt is a Knowledge Director specializing in financial disputes, technology and innovation at global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. There is a major earthquake happening in the sphere of digital assets, which is expected to create shockwaves that will impact tech not only in the real world but also in the metaverse.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The Australian government has passed a new law requiring Google and Facebook to negotiate with news outlets to pay for their content or face arbitration. This is a significant milestone,” said Josh Frydenberg, the Liberal party’s deputy leader who spearheaded the new law. The law has the support of Microsoft.

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The Verge

JANUARY 1, 2021

Internet-based tracking is exactly what the FAA had originally intended to do when it originally proposed the Remote ID rules back in December 2019, by the way — before it received a laundry list of reasons from commenters why internet-based tracking might be problematic and decided to abandon it.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2021

The bill is now expected to be signed into law by President Moon Jae-in, whose party championed the legislation. The law comes as a blow to Google and Apple who both require in-app purchases to flow only through their systems, instead of outside payment processors, allowing the tech giants to collect a 30 percent cut.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

Most recently, it proposed a fine of nearly $4.5 Weeding out illegal calls in real-time without blocking lawful calls is the "most complex part" of the agency's robocall smackdown, it says. million against a communications provider that appeared to allow robocallers posing as FCC staff. So where does that leave consumers?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Facebook will restore news content to its platform in Australia after the government agreed to amend its proposed News Media Bargaining Code. Facebook and Google have been at loggerheads with the Australian government about an upcoming law that will require them to pay publishers for content shared on their platforms.

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The Verge

JULY 5, 2021

A new letter from a tech industry group is driving home the risks of Hong Kong’s proposed anti-doxxing rules. The letter comes in response to series of amendments to Hong Kong’s Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO), proposed by the privacy commissioner in response to concerns around online doxxing.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The House Judiciary Committee has released its conclusions on whether Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Google are violating antitrust law. The majority’s report lays out a number of concrete policy recommendations, which, taken together, would drastically change how the tech industry operates. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2020

Google has published an open letter about a newly proposed government regulation that would compel it to pay media outlets for news content. Google’s arguments include a claim that the law would give an “unfair advantage” to news publishers by giving them information they could use to boost their rankings compared to the competition.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2021

Khan’s appointment signals an increased focus on antitrust regulation against major tech companies, which has been a focus of her legal scholarship. Khan’s confirmation comes at a time when Congress is preparing to take drastic action to curb the power big tech companies have on digital markets.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

trillion spending and relief package includes controversial measures previously introduced as the CASE Act , the Trademark Modernization Act, and a felony streaming proposal — all significantly expanding the rights and powers of intellectual property owners. The CASE Act is a terribly written law that will threaten ordinary Internet users”.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

The pump and pipeline project to Georgetown, developed by California-based Upwell Water, is the largest of at least a half dozen similar projects recently completed, under construction or proposed to bring rural Carrizo Wilcox aquifer water into the booming urban corridor that follows Interstate 35 through Central Texas.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Google is challenging proposed laws that would require online services to implement age checks in a new framework that theorizes how technology companies should approach children’s safety online. In its set of principles, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

As unease spread amongst a handful of entrepreneurs, alarmed at radical “reforms,” proposed by the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government, to the independence of the judiciary, WhatsApp groups were fired up, and were quickly flooded with volunteers from the tech industry. We were tracking wherever MPs were.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

France was first to adopt a law to mandate that new washing machines sold in the country have a microfiber filter, though implementation has been delayed. Deb Patterson proposed a bill this year requiring microfiber filters on new washers sold in that state after she came across the technology in Canada. In the U.S.,

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

But according to a press release from Tillis’ office and statements made by tech advocacy groups like Public Knowledge, streamers and their fans have no cause for alarm. “As On its fourth page, the bill outlines what would qualify as felony behavior under the law. Still, current copyright-striking tech has been hit-or-miss.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Bipartisanship has long been out of fashion, but one common pursuit among Democrats and Republicans in Washington has been placing Big Tech companies under a microscope. Some might argue that acquisitions are more dominant today because of the anti-competitive motivations of current tech incumbents.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2021

Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) plotted out a multi-pronged approach to taking on the power of dominant tech firms like Facebook and Google in a speech for a Verge Live event Monday. We need to be asking more from Big Tech companies, not less,” Klobuchar said in her speech Monday. Our laws shouldn’t remain stagnant as they were 25 years ago”.

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The Verge

APRIL 29, 2021

The European Parliament has formally adopted a law requiring internet companies to “remove or disable access to flagged terrorist content” within one hour after being notified by national authorities. The legislation will come into force 12 months after it is published in the EU’s official journal , a standard step for all EU law.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

News broke over the weekend that Beijing filed a civil suit against Tencent “over claims its messaging-app WeChat’s Youth Mode does not comply with laws protecting minors,” per the BBC. And NetEase, a major Chinese technology company, will delay the IPO of its music arm in Hong Kong. Uncertain regulations, per Reuters.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2021

Broadly, the tax proposals have been uncontroversial — but the details of who will bear the burden of reporting transactions have been maddeningly difficult to agree upon. The language in the new amendment enshrines one of many competing technologies in law,” Coin Center’s Neeraj Agrawal told The Verge. “It

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A coalition of tech and business groups have joined together for a lawsuit challenging Maryland’s newly passed digital services tax, as first reported by The Washington Post. Membership varies, but all three associations count Google, Facebook, and Amazon as members, as well as other tech giants.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. This can include large Fortune 500 companies or even local law firms, smaller companies, business-to-business suppliers, or retailers. If the organization does not have pro-bono legal support, you can approach law firms in your state for help. Is the donor renewal rate low?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Federighi, who oversees Apple’s iOS and macOS software divisions, was specifically protesting the European Commission’s proposed Digital Markets Act , which, if passed, would require Apple to let users install apps outside of the iOS App Store. Apple is still very much against sideloading.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2020

Facebook plans to block the sharing of local and international news stories on its platforms if legislation requiring tech platforms to pay publishers for content becomes law, the company said in a blog post Monday. Media companies in Australia have largely supported the proposed changes. Easton continued.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Facebook has decided to block both Australian users and media companies from sharing links to news articles and related content on its main social network, following the country’s proposed landmark regulatory measure that would force tech giants to pay Australian news organizations for using their content.

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The Verge

JUNE 21, 2021

Jim Jordan (R-OH) is calling on Microsoft to face the same antitrust scrutiny as other large tech platforms in a letter to the company Monday. There are five bills in total, spanning from offering up more money for antitrust enforcers to banning large tech platforms from buying up small competitors. “It Their next big mission?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

With contributions from artists including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Cat Stevens, and Damon Albarn, the album was released Tuesday to protest proposed British changes to artificial intelligence laws that artists fear will erode their creative control. ” Profits will be donated to the musicians’ charity Help Musicians.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

In the latest spark from its fast evolving tech ecosystem, Spain’s scale-ups are banding together to lobby lawmakers and press the economic case for their high-tech, high-growth business model more broadly. So we are going to take this as a base scenario and try to propose different improvements,” says Szpilka.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

UK to set up ‘pro-competition’ regulator to put limits on big tech. “Tens of thousands of UK small and medium-size businesses will get a better deal from the big tech firms which they rely on to trade online. But the dominance of a few tech giants is crowding out competition and stifling innovation. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

“There are still more than one flaws to iron out as well as tech challenges to overcome but overall we think this is a good way to show where this is moving to.” ” Turns out the truth about high-tech “lies” is itself a bit of a layer cake. How to choose and deploy industry-specific AI models.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

As the law does not provide a clear guidance on the definition of news content, we have taken a broad definition in order to respect the law as drafted,” a Facebook representative said. However, we will reverse any Pages that are inadvertently impacted.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

However, today’s startups need to reconsider the MVP model as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) become ubiquitous in tech products and the market grows increasingly conscious of the ethical implications of AI augmenting or replacing humans in the decision-making process.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

At a time when the legitimacy of the carceral state, and policing in particular, is being challenged on fundamental grounds in the United States, there is high demand in law enforcement for research of this nature,” write the group.

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Tableau

MAY 24, 2021

They recognize that clear, digestible data helps communicate expectations to law enforcement; build trust in the community; and contribute to measurable, long-term change. Using our Salesforce and Tableau platforms, we analyzed the proposed bills to compare the provisions against our principles. But we also measured our impact.

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The Verge

JULY 6, 2021

But legislation targeting the market power of large tech companies is picking up an unusual amount of bipartisan momentum. Ken Buck, the top Republican on the antitrust subcommittee, played a large role in building that coalition, which has put him at the leading edge of Republican tech policy. What Big Tech wants is to run the clock”.

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