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Ireland's privacy regulator is investigating X's use of public data to train Grok

Engadget

The country's Data Protection Commission (DPC) said on Friday ( via Reuters ) that it's opening an inquiry into the social platform's use of European users' public posts to train its Grok AI chatbot. That followed a platform policy change in July that let the social site use public posts to train its AI chatbot.

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Federal court blocks Texas law banning ‘viewpoint discrimination’ on social media

The Verge

A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that aimed to limit large social platforms’ ability to moderate content on the grounds that it is likely to violate the First Amendment. Content moderation and curation will benefit users and the public”. NetChoice and the CCIA previously sued over a similar Florida social media law.

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Google’s Wing warns new drone laws ‘may have unintended consequences’ for privacy

The Verge

Here’s Wing on that: This allows a drone to be identified as it flies over without necessarily sharing that drone’s complete flight path or flight history, and that information, which can be more sensitive, is not displayed to the public and only available to law enforcement if they have proper credentials and a reason to need that information.

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Winnie-the-Pooh and around 400,000 early sound recordings enter public domain

The Verge

Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh , Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises , and other books, movies, and compositions from 1926 enter into the public domain today in the US. A recent law, the 2018 Music Modernization Act, standardized how early sound recordings are handled under federal copyright law.

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Strong boards make strong nonprofits: What you need to know

Candid

A nonprofit is more like a public company than a private enterprise in that it’s governed by a board of directors as well as its executive team. By contrast, a governing board is bound by law to oversee management of the organization. An advisory board makes non-binding recommendations to help nonprofits make decisions.

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Apple's Find My has finally launched in South Korea

Engadget

This comes after years of public demand in which the finding network tool was absent from the country. The company never explicitly stated why it limited access to Find My in South Korea, but it appeared to be related to local laws that could have allowed the government access to the location data.

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Time Running Out To Comply With California Fundraising Law

The NonProfit Times

California’s solicitation laws did not specifically reach online platforms, leaving what state officials called “a gap in the regulatory framework with respect to a fast-growing and highly innovative segment of charitable fundraising.” Wu , a partner in the nonprofit focused law firm Perlman And Perlman. 2] Required Disclosures.