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Congress to investigate 23andMes handling of sensitive data

Mashable Tech

With the lack of a federal comprehensive data privacy and security law, we write to express our great concern about the safety of Americans' most sensitive personal information." The Company maintains strict data privacy and security protocols, and it is subject to consumer privacy and genetic privacy laws."

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Senators Urged To Protect NGOs Via Systems, Staffing, Sanctions

The NonProfit Times

In the past five years, 72 countries have introduced 270 measures restricting civil society,” Douglas Rutzen, president and CEO of the International Center for Nonprofit Law testified. “In Phase two involved passing anti-NGO laws despite public opposition. Repression of these organizations is becoming increasingly common. “In

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Dear Sophie: What can we do to help employees who are Ukrainian citizens?

TechCrunch

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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Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange Talks about the Global Citizen Center

Have Fun - Do Good

They build a building, and then they just fill it up, and there's an architecture firm, and a law firm, and whatever. What I am trying to create is a real estate model that captures that value, because if you look at the way most of these downtown buildings are, it's really stupid the way it is organized.

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Trump defies U.S. judge’s order, deports hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador

Fast Company Tech

The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist TdA aliens had already been removed from U.S. Immigration lawyers said that, late Friday, they noticed Venezuelans who otherwise couldn’t be deported under immigration law being moved to Texas for deportation flights.

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Trump wants to ramp up deportations. So why is he firing all these immigration judges?

Fast Company Tech

The firing of immigration judges when we need more judges to enforce our immigration laws by this administration is a perfect example of hypocrisy, said Matt Biggs, president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, in an emailed statement to Beyond the Border. He asked how they had arrived in court that day.

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Report: Conflict Has 114 Million People Displaced

The NonProfit Times

Two more countries – Bangladesh and Venezuela – were downgraded to the worst civic space category this past December. Long-established tenets of international human rights and humanitarian laws are being flouted. Some 118 countries now have serious civic space restrictions and only 2.1%

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