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Texas sued over terrible social media law

The Verge

NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) have sued to stop Texas from enforcing HB 20, a new law barring large social media companies from banning users or removing content based on the “viewpoint” of the user. Nobody wants any more spam.”.

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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

Amy Sample Ward

." <b>nononprofitspam</b> <b>wordpress.com</b> – Check out this new blog and campaign from nptechers like Deborah Elizabeth Finn and Peter Campbell targeting an issue many of us in the nonprofit sector may not think exists, or maybe ignore: nonprofit spam. "Our " Lights.

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Google Pixel mail-in repairs have allegedly twice resulted in leaked pics and a privacy nightmare

The Verge

In October, McGonigal sent her broken phone to an official Pixel repair center in Texas. However, she speculates that whoever has the phone may have used it to access her backup email addresses and then dumped any security alerts into her spam folder. The activity triggered several email security alerts to McGonigal’s backup accounts.

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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

TechCrunch

One early adopter was Matt Mullenweg, a 19-year-old jazz enthusiast in Texas. ” The good side of spam. Yet, traditional media remained the undisputed king of communication, and the era of professional blogs (including the one you’re reading) was still a distant dream. WordPress, though, was still referred to as a “hobby.”

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HiddenLayer emerges from stealth to protect AI models from attacks

TechCrunch

Tricking a spam filter into letting through an email is very different in scale and severity to extracting proprietary data from a large language model,” Cook said. ” Austin, Texas-based HiddenLayer currently has 11 employees and expects to finish 2022 with 14.

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#MyTechFrenemy

TechCrunch

Registered as a business in Texas, MTBF costs up to $6,000 to attend and lasts a minimum of three months. She said this was the first time she had received an email about being behind on homework, and later found out all of their notifications went to spam. Mandy withdrew.

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Digital Privacy Compliance for Nonprofits: The Big 3 Laws

Achieve

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. It’s primarily intended to prevent spam email ads from commercial entities, but nonprofits are not exempt.

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