U.S. Charitable Giving Fell About $20B in First Year of Tax Law Change
NonProfit PRO
JULY 31, 2024
charitable giving fell about $20 billion in 2018 because of a law related to deductions for individual income taxes. A new study found U.S.
Section 230 faces a bipartisan repeal effort. Experts say it’s a risky bet
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 24, 2025
Both Democrats and Republicans should be wary of getting rid of Section 230, warns Anupam Chander, a law professor at Georgetown University. He notes that the law protects a range of actions that each party valueseven if it also enables behavior they oppose. Yet conservatives, too, benefit from the law’s broad protections.
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Netflix faces trademark suit over basketball team name and branding in ‘Running Point’
Fast Company Tech
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Attorneys for Pepperdine University in Malibu have filed a lawsuit against the streaming service and Warner Bros. Attorneys for the University claim the fictional team’s branding is too similar to its own, and that it uses the same blue and orange team colors and mascot. And the Pepperdine Waves have a problem with it.
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Asimov’s laws of robotics need an update for the workplace
The Next Web
APRIL 2, 2018
Seventy-six years ago, sci-fi author Isaac Asimov wrote his initial three laws of robotics as part of his short story, “Runaround.” Later, in an effort to modernize those laws, Asimov drafted fourth law that preceded the other three. Here are Asimov’s original… This story continues at The Next Web.
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Thailand Deploys Humanoid Robot Dressed in Police Uniform
Futurism
APRIL 19, 2025
Image credit: Royal Thai Police We've already seen plenty of disastrous rollouts of robots in law enforcement. Last year, we also came across a rolling robot, reminiscent of the android BB-8 in the "Star Wars" universe, being deployed by a police force in Eastern China.
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Freelancers Are Getting Ruined by AI
Futurism
MARCH 8, 2025
Now, it's a growing fact of life for billions of workers around the world, as companies break up full-time positions into contract work with less stability and protection by labor laws. Involuntary freelance is hard enough.
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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise
The NonProfit Times
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
She teams with and coordinates with other environmental nonprofits to use every law on the books to battle climate change and polluters. Ambassador to the United Nations Douglas Rutzen President & CEO International Center for Not-for-Profit Law Rutzen has quietly put out political fires in back rooms around the world. Cook, Ph.D.
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How you can help save declining butterflies
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 13, 2025
But those laws could be changed. The law mandates that the government maintain habitat for listed species. Eliza Grames is an assistant professor of biological sciences at Binghamton University, State University of New York. The federal Endangered Species Act can also help. Read the original article.
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Are you ‘AI literate’? Schools and jobs are insisting on it—and now it’s EU law
Fast Company Tech
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
“The models are not failing,” says Maria De-Arteaga, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. California recently passed a law requiring AI literacy to be incorporated into K-12 curricula starting this fall. Three years lets things settle.
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Iceland built 1,756 wheelchair ramps in the past 4 years. Why can’t other countries do that?
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 31, 2025
This study was conducted in the United States, where we have the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a law intended to protect the rights of disabled people and ensure accessible infrastructure. Yet, even with the ADA, there are still massive access inequities in our urban environments.
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Privacy Laws Are Changing: Make Sure Your Nonprofit Is Ready
sgEngage
JULY 26, 2023
Your legal counsel can help you understand how the changing laws apply to your organization’s data collection, usage, and storage. NOTE: The following information does not constitute legal advice and is not a comprehensive review of data privacy laws. Please consult your legal team to address your specific situation.
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How to emotionally recover after being scammed
Mashable Tech
APRIL 1, 2025
Fraud victims seek help from law enforcement or adult protective services, or support from a loved one, clergy member, or therapist, but because of the stigma and blame associated with the crime may be treated as foolish or incompetent instead. The most critical thing and the hardest thing.is
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How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel
The Verge
APRIL 30, 2021
The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I How did one email lead to a university-wide ban?
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University will stop using controversial remote-testing software following student outcry
The Verge
JANUARY 29, 2021
Students head to class at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. | The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign announced that it will discontinue its use of remote-proctoring software Proctorio after its summer 2021 term. Over 1,000 people signed a petition calling on the university to stop using the service.
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In Texas, ‘water is the new oil’ as cities square off over aquifers that may soon dry out
Fast Company Tech
APRIL 1, 2025
Bryan, College Station, and the Texas A&M University System, a metro area with almost 300,000 people, have sued the developer to stop the project. Texas law offers limited clarity, generally preferring a landowners right to pump their own groundwater over regulations on private property. A trial is set for the first week of May.
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In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Black communities get all of the pollution—but very few of the jobs
Fast Company Tech
APRIL 21, 2025
A new study led by Tulane University backs up that view, revealing stark racial disparities across the U.S.s It was really surprising how consistently people of color didnt get their fair share of jobs in the petrochemical industry, said Kimberly Terrell, a research scientist with the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic.
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Bill To Pull Tax Exemptions Headed Back To Congress
The NonProfit Times
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Foundations and universities have often been targeted for not just their large endowments but also for support of controversial topics and opinions. Organizations suspected of violating the law are rightly subject to criminal investigation and prosecution. Vice President-elect J.D. Section 4 of H.R.9495
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How L.A. can rebuild after the wildfires without leaving vulnerable residents behind
Fast Company Tech
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
My research at the University of San Diego focuses on managing risk in the face of climate change. Policy changes, such as updating zoning laws to prevent rebuilding in highly vulnerable areas, can avoid costly damage in the future. Nichole Wissman is an assistant professor of management at the University of San Diego.
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Biden signs $1 trillion infrastructure package into law
The Verge
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
The package includes $65 billion to improve broadband access with the goal of achieving universal connectivity by the end of the decade. The infrastructure package that was signed into law Monday was sliced off of the broader social spending package and was approved by the Senate in August by a 69-30 vote. Another $7.5
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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 12, 2014
HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.
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Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders 5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem The startup economy has grown and shifted since the turn of the century, and universities — stocked with a never-ending supply smart, ambitious young people — have increasingly taken part.
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Please Join VisionLink In Welcoming Aaron Titus To Our Proud Family!
VisionLink
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
As an attorney he specializes in internet, technology, privacy, and corporate law and has consulted organizations on legal requirements, risk identification, risk management, and developing a corporate culture of privacy. from the George Washington School of Law, and his undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Utah.
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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 17, 2014
Such action, the Court decided, didn’t constitute copyright infringement because it was fair use , that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. Universal City Studios, Inc., Universal City Studios, Inc., copyright law. of America v.
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Arm, Intel, TSMC, AMD, Google and more industry leaders form the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) standard
TechSpot
MARCH 2, 2022
According to Gordon Moore, the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles every two years (Moore's Law). However, maintaining this while using a monolithic design has gradually become more challenging, leading companies like AMD and Intel to use chiplet systems within their products. Moore predicted this in 1965, calling.
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TechCrunch+ roundup: Immigration law Q&A, finding your problem, why a16z pitched Deel
TechCrunch
APRIL 26, 2022
Most founders are not experienced entrepreneurs, which means they tend to repeat the same mistakes as they try to overcome universal challenges. Submit questions for today’s TechCrunch+ Twitter Space with immigration law attorney Sophie Alcorn. Image Credits: Joanna Buniak / Sophie Alcorn (opens in a new window). PT/5:30 p.m.
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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board
Nonprofit Tech for Good
APRIL 3, 2022
This can include large Fortune 500 companies or even local law firms, smaller companies, business-to-business suppliers, or retailers. Use the Foundation Directory at the library or a university to find foundations out of state. If the organization does not have pro-bono legal support, you can approach law firms in your state for help.
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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 21, 2012
The other half of the day they go to university pursuing advanced studies in numerous different fields (I asked a bunch of the students their area of study and heard answers like business, law, accountancy and even forestry). We scan the books in the U.S.,
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Spotify lets passengers fight over your road trip playlist, disturbing natural order of universe
The Verge
MARCH 11, 2021
And yet, in a brazen challenge to the immutable laws of the universe, Spotify has chosen to meddle with this golden rule by expanding its Group Session beta to cars. Polestar / Beadyeye. It’s a fundamental rule of the road: driver picks the music.
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El Salvador becomes first country to adopt Bitcoin as an official currency
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
The CEO of Strike, a digital finance company that helped with the logistics of the new law, told CNN that over 70 percent of the country’s “active population” do not currently have a bank account. The law means citizens will be able to pay taxes in Bitcoin, and shops will be able to display prices in the digital currency.
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Apple will reportedly scan photos stored on iPhones and iCloud for child abuse imagery
The Verge
AUGUST 5, 2021
The new system could help law enforcement in criminal investigations but may open the door to increased legal and government demands for user data. John Hopkins University professor and cryptographer Matthew Green raised concerns about the system on Twitter Wednesday night.
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Portland passes strongest facial recognition ban in the US
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Photo by: Visions of America/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Other cities such as Boston , San Francisco , and Oakland have passed laws barring public institutions from using facial recognition, but Portland is the first to prohibit private use. The new law is actually established as two ordinances.
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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
Moreover, these accessible books are available for free, since the United States Government funds the Bookshare library to meet requirements in national disability rights and education laws. Students outside the United States are not covered by this national copyright exception, because every country has its own copyright law.
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Introducing the Open Cap Table Coalition
TechCrunch
JULY 29, 2021
He has taught entrepreneurship at McGill University and the University of Pennsylvania, and was the founder of LegalX, a legal technology accelerator. So what’s the real motivation of seven law firms, which together saw revenue of over $10 billion in 2020 to collaborate on an open cap table product for startups? Aron Solomon.
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These names cause ChatGPT to break, and it's due to AI hallucinations
TechSpot
DECEMBER 3, 2024
404Media found that the same thing happened when it was asked about "Jonathan Zittrain," a Harvard Law School professor, and "Jonathan Turley," a George Washington University Law. Social media users recently found that entering the name "David Mayer" into ChatGPT saw the system refuse to respond and end the session.
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Digital Privacy Compliance for Nonprofits: The Big 3 Laws
Achieve
MARCH 4, 2022
From fundraising legal requirements to digital privacy laws, it’s important to understand the rules to which your nonprofit can be held accountable. Regulation #1: The CAN-SPAM Act The CAN-SPAM Act was passed into US law in 2003, and it protects consumers from receiving emails that they never agreed to receive.
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Streaming HBO Max will now count toward data limits for AT&T customers
The Verge
MARCH 17, 2021
California’s new net neutrality law includes banning sponsored data services, known as zero-rating, which previously allowed companies like AT&T to cover data usage of certain platforms (like HBO Max) for customers who use other offerings like internet plans. That’s no longer the case.
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Opposing Salesforce.com attempt to TM "Social Enterprise"
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 28, 2012
Universities have programs on learning how to run social enterprises. Once universities have courses in a subject area, it would seem clear that the term is quite generic. Here is the letter I'm sending to the USPTO supporting their initial recommendation against granting this registered trademark in the U.S.
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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 9, 2013
Finally, we’re grateful to the Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation for matching us with pro bono attorneys who drafted a very impressive agreement tailored to Spanish law concerning serving individuals with print disabilities. Special thanks go to Charles Coward and Xavier Domènech of the Barcelona law firm Uría Menéndez.
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Big Meeting on the Treaty this Week!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
As the operators of Bookshare in the USA, which was made possible through a great exception in our copyright law here, we would love to make all of our books available to people with qualifying disabilities around the world. We expect that many of the big issues with the current text will get ironed out this week.
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Dear Sophie: Last-minute H-1Bs, O-1A & EB-1A extraordinary credential prep
TechCrunch
MARCH 8, 2023
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” colleges and universities.
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ADA Lawsuits Against Website Owners Are Increasing: Mitigate Risk By Making Your Site Web Accessible
Byte Technology
OCTOBER 7, 2019
According to law firm Seyfarth Shaw, its researchers counted a whopping 5,592 ADA Title III lawsuit filings within the first six months of 2019! This law ensures that information is available to those with disabilities. This is a threat letter received by one of our clients just recently. which specifies levels of compliance.
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7 Nonprofits Fighting for Immigrant Rights
Everyaction
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
DACA paved the way for these children of immigrants to obtain work authorization and relief from deportation, enabling them to go on to universities and build careers and families. They hold the government accountable for unjust immigration laws and educate the American public on the longstanding importance of immigrants in the US.
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Tim Berners-Lee says internet access should be a basic right
The Verge
MARCH 12, 2021
Governments need to pass effective laws that govern technology and hold companies to account for creating responsible products and services,” Berners-Lee writes in the post co-authored by his Web Foundation co-founder Rosemary Leith. Providing universal broadband access within the next ten years “would deliver around $8.7
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Dear Sophie: Tell me more about the EB-1A extraordinary ability green card
TechCrunch
JULY 14, 2021
Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives.
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