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| 18.06.2025 | US Senate passes stablecoin bill in milestone for crypto industry | US Senate passes stablecoin bill in milestone for crypto industry
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| 09.06.2025 | The Digital Battlefield: AI, Politics, and the Fight for Integrity | In the heart of American democracy, a new battle rages. It’s not fought with guns or bombs, but with algorithms and misinformation. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has opened a Pandora's box of challenges, especially in the politic... |
| 07.06.2025 | This Week In Techdirt History: June 1st – 7th | Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, while many in the media were hedging their bets and wringing their hands in their coverage of the rapidly escalating protests over the murder of George Floyd, I was proud that we ran an appropriately uncomp... |
| 05.06.2025 | Consultant behind AI-generated robocalls mimicking Biden goes on trial in New Hampshire | Ahead of the trial in Belknap County Superior Court, state prosecutors sought to prevent Kramer from arguing that the primary was a meaningless straw poll because it wasn’t sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee. At Biden’s request... |
| 27.05.2025 | Trump targeted Democrats over questionable online fundraising. His campaign has similar issues | But after reclaiming the White House, Trump embarked on a campaign of retribution against his perceived enemies, launching broadsides against universities, law firms and his own former officials. If the Justice Department were to investigat... |
| 16.05.2025 | House Republicans include a 10-year ban on US states regulating AI in ‘big, beautiful’ bill | Senators in both parties have expressed an interest in artificial intelligence and believe that Congress should take the lead in regulating the technology. But while lawmakers have introduced scores of bills, including some bipartisan effor... |
| 09.05.2025 | IRS-ICE Immigrant Data Sharing Agreement Betrays Data Privacy And Taxpayers’ Trust | In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Department of Treasury and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently reached an agreement allowing the IRS to share with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) taxpayer information of cert... |
| 19.03.2025 | YouTube Apparently Unsure If Shakespeare Is In The Public Domain | One of the darker threads of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is how complex copyright enforcement systems can be abused, for example by sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests for material... |
| 01.03.2025 | This Week In Techdirt History: February 23rd – March 1st | Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, a court finally dumped one of Devin Nunes’ ridiculous lawsuits only for him to immediately promise to file another, while Public Citizen weighed in on why the famous cow’s information should be protected un... |
| 28.02.2025 | The Health Care Battlefield: Project 2025 and Its Implications | In the ever-shifting landscape of American politics, health care remains a battleground. The recent emergence of Project 2025 has reignited debates over the future of health care in the United States. This initiative, linked to former Presi... |
| 26.02.2025 | National Politics | Trump froze out Project 2025 in his campaign. Now its blueprint is his health care playbook | “I have no idea what Project 2025 is,” Trump said Oct. 31 at a rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico, one of many times he disclaimed any knowledge of the plan. “I’ve never read it, and I never will.”
But because his administration is hewing to ... |
| 21.02.2025 | Trump EO Tries To Destroy Whatever Corporate Regulatory Oversight Hasn’t Been Already Killed By DOGE And The Supreme Court | Welcome to the golden age of corruption.
Last year I warned repeatedly how a concussive series of Supreme Court rulings like Loper Bright were poised to dismantle already shaky regulatory authority and corporate oversight, turning most U.S.... |
| 12.02.2025 | OpenAI's board has not received Musk's takeover bid, source says | NEW YORK: OpenAI's board has not yet received a formal bid from an Elon Musk-led consortium, although a lawyer for the billionaire said the offer had been sent to OpenAI's outside counsel.
A day after Musk publicised a bid to offer US$97.4 ... |
| 12.02.2025 | Business | With Education Department under threat, what student loan borrowers can do | Download your loan information
Take a few minutes to screenshot or download every bit of information from your studentaid.gov account. Having a paper trail of your payments and loan status can protect you if issues arise with the Education ... |
| 12.02.2025 | OpenAI's board has not received Musk's takeover bid, source says | OpenAI's board has not received Musk's takeover bid, source says
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| 07.02.2025 | National Politics | Kash Patel had a roster of foreign clients. Their interests could clash with FBI he hopes to lead | Craig Holman, a lobbyist for the Washington-based government watchdog Public Citizen, said Patel’s business dealings presented problems that need to be explored before he becomes FBI director. “The conflicts of interest seem very obvious to... |
| 07.02.2025 | Consumer advocacy organization files complaint over Trump's meme coin | Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization, has called for a federal investigation into whether U.S. President Donald Trump had violated laws around gift solicitation by promoting a meme coin.
The organization lodged its complaint wit... |
| 21.01.2025 | The Fake Government ‘Efficiency’ Agency Known As DOGE Already Faces Multiple Lawsuits | One of the many new executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on Monday was the long-hyped creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE is portrayed as a sort of government efficiency and innovation office, but i... |
| 15.01.2025 | National Politics | What to know about Trump’s attorney general pick Pam Bondi as she faces questioning on Capitol Hill | “The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted — the bad ones,” Bondi said in a 2023 Fox News appearance. “The investigators will be investigated.”
Bondi said members of the so-called deep state were “hiding in the shadows” ... |
| 05.12.2024 | Business | Bitcoin has surpassed the $100,000 mark as the post-election rally continues. What’s next? | Back up. What is cryptocurrency again?
Cryptocurrency has been around for a while now. But chances are you’ve heard about it more and more over the last few years.
In basic terms, cryptocurrency is digital money. This kind of currency is de... |
| 24.11.2024 | The Rise of Pam Bondi: A Controversial Figure in Trump’s New Administration | Pam Bondi is back in the spotlight. As Donald Trump’s newly appointed attorney general, she embodies the complex tapestry of loyalty, controversy, and ambition that defines his administration. Her journey from Florida’s first female attorne... |
| 21.11.2024 | National Politics | Trump’s incoming chief of staff is a former lobbyist. She’ll face a raft of special interests | In a statement, Brian Hughes, a spokesman from the Trump transition effort, rejected any suggestion that Wiles’ past as a lobbyist would make her susceptible to pressure.
“Susie Wiles has an undeniable reputation of the highest integrity an... |
| 08.11.2024 | Health | How a proposed federal heat rule might have saved these workers’ lives | Laborers have suffered as summers have grown progressively hotter with climate change. But health policy and occupational health researchers say that worker deaths are not inevitable. Employers can save lives by providing ample water and br... |
| 28.10.2024 | The US Presidential Election Will Affect Venture Investing. How Much Is The Question | 11 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Just like most of America, those in the venture and startup realm will watch the returns of the U.S. presidential election pour in next week with a keen eye on who wins — and what it could mean for ... |
| 21.08.2024 | Nearly Half of All Corporate Election Spending in 2024 Cycle Comes from Crypto Companies, Study Finds | Nearly half of all corporate political contributions in the 2024 election cycle came from cryptocurrency companies, according to a Wednesday report from corporate influence watchdog Public Citizen.
Public Citizen’s report, which was based o... |
| 20.08.2024 | Trump posts image of fake Taylor Swift endorsement | LOS ANGELES: Former president Donald Trump has posted a fake social media image of pop superstar Taylor Swift asking people to vote for him in the November election.
A Sunday entry by the Republican candidate on Truth Social showed Swift dr... |
| 29.07.2024 | National Politics | A parody ad shared by Elon Musk clones Kamala Harris’ voice, raising concerns about AI in politics | Mia Ehrenberg, a Harris campaign spokesperson, said in an email to The Associated Press: “We believe the American people want the real freedom, opportunity and security Vice President Harris is offering; not the fake, manipulated lies of El... |
| 29.07.2024 | A manipulated video shared by Elon Musk mimics Kamala Harris' voice, raising concerns about AI in politics | NEW YORK: A manipulated video that mimics the voice of Vice President Kamala Harris saying things she did not say is raising concerns about the power of artificial intelligence to mislead with election day about three months away.
The video... |
| 02.07.2024 | Biden administration proposes rule to protect workers from extreme heat | Employers would have to take steps to protect tens of millions of U.S. workers from extreme heat under a rule proposed by the Biden Administration on Tuesday.
In what would be the first major regulation of its kind, the new rule would add s... |
| 20.06.2024 | National Public Opinion Survey Finds Voters Skeptical About Congressional “Anti-ESG” Policies | Last summer, leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives declared July 2023 to be “ESG month.” They launched a series of seven Congressional hearings focused on fleshing out “key concerns” over environmental, social and governance investme... |
| 17.06.2024 | National Politics | AI experimentation is high risk, high reward for low-profile political campaigns | The technology — which can do everything from streamlining mundane campaign tasks to creating fake images, video or audio — already has been deployed in some national races around the country and has spread far more widely in elections acro... |
| 14.06.2024 | The Supreme Court Continues To Struggle With How To Apply The First Amendment In Intellectual Property Cases | For not the first time, the Supreme Court seems to regard the First Amendment as secondary when it comes to cases involving some form of intellectual property. This has happened all too frequently. Perhaps most famously, in Eldred v. Ashcro... |
| 05.06.2024 | Crypto industry's lobbying drive will pay off in US elections, Ripple president says | Previous
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FILE PHOTO: Representation of the Ripple payments network is seen in this illustration taken N... |
| 03.06.2024 | AI safety becomes a partisan battlefield | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Making AI safe, once a consensus goal for the industry, has become an ideological battleground.
Why it matters: Like "election integrity" in politics, everyone says they support "AI saf... |
| 23.05.2024 | AI-Generated Biden Deepfake Robocall Leads to Indictment and $6 Million FCC Fine | By Quincy Jon
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| 22.05.2024 | FCC to consider rules for AI-generated political ads on TV, radio, but it can't regulate streaming | The head of the Federal Communications Commission introduced a proposal Wednesday that would require political advertisers to disclose when they use AI-generated content in broadcast TV and radio ads.
The proposal, if adopted by the commiss... |
| 20.05.2024 | Senate's new controversial patent reform target | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Sens. Chris Coons and Thom Tillis are pushing a pair of bills that they say are essential to overhauling the patent process, including for drugs and genomics, but that critics contend could wind up he... |
| 19.05.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Candace Milner: This graduation season, debt relief still feels out of reach for young borrowers | During his campaign, President Biden promised to bring Americans relief through widespread student debt cancellation.
He recently announced a new plan aimed at making good on this promise by tackling runaway interest for borrowers who owe m... |
| 13.05.2024 | Crypto PACs are pouring money into 2024 elections | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Crypto is increasingly throwing its weight behind industry-friendly candidates.
The big picture: Crypto super political action committees, commonly known as PACs, have raised more than $100 million fo... |
| 11.03.2024 | Sheldon shrugs at insurance walk-back | Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse insists he'll proceed with his own investigations after the Biden administration reversed its plans for climate oversight of the property insurance market.
Why it matters: Whitehouse is going to keep being Whitehouse... |
| 04.03.2024 | Why OpenAI’s nonprofit mission to build AGI is under fire — again | The AI Beat | Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here.
In the new lawsuit filed by Elon Musk last week against OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman, and its president Greg Brockman... |
| 09.01.2024 | OpenAI's Nonprofit Status Questioned by Public Citizen | News OpenAI's Nonprofit Status Questioned by Public Citizen By Kurt MackieJanuary 09, 2024
Public Citizen has asked California's attorney general to investigate OpenAI's nonprofit status, per a Tuesday announcement.
San Francisco-based Open... |
| 30.12.2023 | Непослушное дитя Докинза или о формировании современного мемофонда | В уже далёком 2017 году я единственный раз побывал на фестивале «Geek Picnic», проходившем в Санкт-Петербурге. На тот фестиваль я собрался исключительно ради того, чтобы послушать Ричарда Докинза. Прочитанная им лекция выложена на YouTube з... |
| 18.10.2023 | OpenAI's Sam Altman has 'deep misgivings' about people becoming friends with AI | OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Win McNamee/Getty Images
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"We named it ChatGPT and not a person's name very intentionally," he said during W... |
| 07.08.2023 | Court Should Block Registration Of ‘Trump Too Small’ Trademark Not Because It’s Someone’s Name, But Because No One Should Control The Phrase | There’s an interesting thing that happens all too often in trademark cases, whereby people seem to flip the underlying argument. We see it in cases where someone opposes the registration of a certain trademark, and the party seeking the tra... |
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MBA, NAHB urge court to consider impact of CFPB constitutionality decision | A coalition of housing trade groups, including the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and the National Association of Realtors (NAR), have filed a joint amicus brief with the United States Supre... |
| 06.05.2023 | Why generative AI is more dangerous than you think | Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More
A lot has been written about the dangers of generative AI in recent months and yet everything I’ve... |
| 23.03.2023 | Get ready: More blackouts are coming | Redeem now
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| 06.03.2023 | SEC Chair Gary Gensler Is Staffing Up To Investigate The Crypto Industry | Gary Gensler, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)/ Photographer: Melissa ... [+] Lyttle/Bloomberg© 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP |
| 29.10.2022 | Pressure mounts for regulators to investigate TikTok over potential 'Big Brother-type surveillance' after reports of plans to track Americans' locations | Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
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| 18.10.2022 | More than 1 million Americans ration their insulin as the drug's cost skyrockets | About 1.3 million Americans rationed their prescribed doses of insulin last year to save money, a pattern one doctor said threatens the health — and even the lives — of people with diabetes.
Many people are taking less than the recommended ... |
| 26.09.2022 | FDA: Ignore a pharma company’s deceptive racial equity argument for keeping Makena, an ineffective preterm labor drug | In an effort to sway the Food and Drug Administration not to withdraw accelerated approval of Makena, a drug developed to prevent preterm birth that does no such thing, a pharmaceutical company owned by a private equity company is making th... |
| 28.08.2022 | ESG – A Defense, A Critique (part 2 now), And A Way Forward: An Evidence-Driven Pragmatic Perspective | Continuing from last week, this week I look at evidence related to claims that ESG is a savior of our ecosystem and how profit and shareholder value maximization is the residual claimant of virtually every evil in our society. |
| 03.08.2022 | Study Says Trump’s Truth Social Is Much More Aggressive, And Much More Arbitrary, In Moderating Content | As you’ll recall, the defining moment that lead to Donald Trump creating his Truth Social Twitter clone was his being banned from Twitter for potentially egging on further violence on January 6th. Even before Truth Social was started, Trump... |
| 19.07.2022 | PhRMA and BIO descend on D.C. & unpacking the Senate’s FDA funding drama | You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox.
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| 02.05.2022 | Updated: Gilead collects 5th priority review voucher as public advocacy group urged the company to relinquish it | Gilead recently collected its 5th priority review voucher, this time for its megablockbuster Covid-19 drug remdesivir, which brought in $1.5 billion last quarter.
Many have questioned and critiqued the need for such lucrati... |
| 19.03.2022 | Watch Tower vs. McFree: Nonprofit Defends Critic’s Fair Use & Anonymity Rights | Since 2017, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, has filed more than 70 DMCA subpoena applications in the United States.
When taken at face value, they all te... |
| 04.03.2022 | Family Sues Activision, Claims Sexual Harassment Led to Daughter’s Suicide | Sign up for dot.LA's daily newsletter for the latest news on Southern California's tech, startup and venture capital scene.
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| 04.03.2022 | Activision Employee Killed Herself Due to Sexual Harassment at Work, Family Claims in Wrongful Death Lawsuit | Sign up for dot.LA's daily newsletter for the latest news on Southern California's tech, startup and venture capital scene.
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| 24.02.2022 | Public Citizen picks apart Cures 2.0 draft legislation, criticizing several RWE provisions | Consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen on Thursday sent a letter to congressional leaders, seeking changes to a key piece of legislation that will create new FDA reforms if it’s enacted.
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| 18.02.2022 | When the $10K brand name drug is more affordable than its $450 generic: How PBMs control the system | Every year, pharma companies hike prices on their portfolio — and this year was no different. Like clockwork, hundreds of drugs got a price increase at the turn of the New Year, marking an annual tradition that typically stirs up critics of... |
| 18.02.2022 | To keep up with demand, Sorrento acquires majority ownership in Covid-19 test manufacturer | In a move that the company hopes will up its ability to respond to demand for its Covid-19 tests, Sorrento Therapeutics has acquired a majority ownership in a Chinese diagnostics manufacturer.
Sorrento Therapeutics will use Zhengzhou Fortun... |
| 18.02.2022 | Public Citizen accuses Pfizer of building 'patent wall' for Covid treatment, setting up inequities again | Public Citizen has called out Pfizer. Again.
The consumer advocacy nonprofit issued a statement Friday claiming the Big Pharma is building a patent wall by filing or intending to file patent applications in 61 countri... |
| 18.02.2022 | J&J back in court over new generic threat from Intas, just months after fending off Teva | Three months after successfully fending off Teva’s proposed generic to its schizophrenia drug Invega Sustenna, Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen unit is back in court arguing another case of alleged patent infringement — this time from Intas ... |
| 21.01.2022 | New Bill Claims To Ban 'Surveillance Advertising,' But Doesn't Actually Do It | This week Representatives Anna Eshoo and Jan Schakowsky, and Senator Cory Booker introduced the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, which the trio proclaim will dismantle the snoopvertising industry and make everybody immeasurably safer: |
| 21.01.2022 | New Bill Claims To Ban 'Surveillance Advertising,' But Doesn't Actually Do It | This week Representatives Anna Eshoo and Jan Schakowsky, and Senator Cory Booker introduced the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, which the trio proclaim will dismantle the snoopvertising industry and make everybody immeasurably safer: |
| 14.01.2022 | New 'TLDR' Bill Requires Companies Provide Synopsis Of Overlong, Predatory Terms Of Service | This week saw the introduction of the The Terms-of-service Labeling, Design and Readability Act, or "TLDR Act," for short. The bill, which, for now, has bipartisan support, would require the FTC to create rules mandating that webs... |
| 14.01.2022 | New 'TLDR' Bill Requires Companies Provide Synopsis Of Overlong, Predatory Terms Of Service | This week saw the introduction of the The Terms-of-service Labeling, Design and Readability Act, or “TLDR Act,” for short. The bill, which, for now, has bipartisan support, would require the FTC to create rules mandating that websites must ... |
| 01.12.2021 | Amazon’s strategy to squeeze marketplace sellers and maximize its own profits is evolving | Amazon has always presented its Marketplace, where outside businesses sell products through Amazon’s platform, as one of its biggest success stories: mutually beneficial to Amazon, sellers, and customers alike. But a new report says those b... |
| 17.11.2021 | FDA+ roundup: ALS bill would provide $100M annually to access potential drugs; FDA needs to better enforce ClinicalTrials.gov reporting, researchers say | The House Energy & Commerce Committee began marking up a dozen bills on Wednesday morning including one that would require the FDA to craft a five-year action plan for fostering the development of drugs that improve o... |
| 29.10.2021 | Why Facebook’s angry emoji should interest the US SEC | Lisa Gilbert Contributor
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| 20.10.2021 | Gates Foundation pledges $120M to ramp up generic supply of Merck's Covid-19 pill while activists blast Pfizer's disproportionate power | Merck’s molnupiravir may not be officially authorized anywhere in the world yet, but who will get access to it has shaped up to be a huge issue. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now stepping up to ensure lower-in... |
| 13.10.2021 | As TRIPS council meets, the IP waiver for vaccines is on life support ahead of a December deadline | The WTO’s TRIPS Council is meeting today and tomorrow to discuss a Covid-19 vaccine IP waiver that remains divisive and unlikely to be adopted thanks to European opposition, but which proponents still think could unloc... |
| 13.08.2021 | U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Paying People $2,000 To Pretend Binding Arbitration Is Good | For years, AT&T worked tirelessly to erode its customers’ legal rights, using mouse print in its terms of service preventing consumers from participating in lawsuits against the company. Instead, customers were forced into binding arbit... |
| 13.08.2021 | U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Paying People $2,000 To Pretend Binding Arbitration Is Good | For years, AT&T worked tirelessly to erode its customers' legal rights, using mouse print in its terms of service preventing consumers from participating in lawsuits against the company. Instead, customers were forced into binding arbit... |
| 09.07.2021 | Fox News Is Launching A Weather Channel. But It Probably Won’t Forecast Climate Change. | 1 1
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| 30.06.2021 | Calls grow for an investigation into FDA approval of Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug | WASHINGTON — Former health secretary Donna Shalala called for a federal investigation into the Food and Drug Administration’s polarizing approval of a Biogen treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, citing STAT’s revelation Tuesday that regulator... |
| 29.06.2021 | Operation Warp Speed — now, the ‘CAG’— is here to stay | You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox.
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| 27.06.2021 | The FDA is broken. It’s controversial approval of an ineffective new Alzheimer’s drug proves the agency puts profit over public health. | The way medicinal science is funded and rubber-stamped in this country has less to do with public health than it does with profit. Skye Gould/Insider
The agency’s approval of a new Alzheimer’s drug rightly caused an uproar.
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| 27.06.2021 | The FDA is broken. Its controversial approval of an ineffective new Alzheimer's drug proves the agency puts profit over public health. | The way medicinal science is funded and rubber-stamped in this country has less to do with public health than it does with profit. Skye Gould/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start re... |
| 11.06.2021 | FDA’s New CDER Director Grants Approval of Yet Another Expensive, Scientifically Questionable Drug ... More Will Follow. | In November, the FDA’s official advisory panel voted 10-0 against endorsing the new monoclonal antibody treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. Some of those panel naysayers were actually investigators who ran clinical trials for aducanumab. Nev... |
| 03.06.2021 | Corporations Are Being Forced To Take Consumer Complaints Back To Court After Arbitration Push Backfires Spectacularly | For years, AT&T worked tirelessly to erode its customers' legal rights, using mouse print in its terms of service preventing consumers from participating in lawsuits against the company. Instead, customers were forced into binding arbit... |
| 03.06.2021 | Corporations Are Being Forced To Take Consumer Complaints Back To Court After Arbitration Push Backfires Spectacularly | For years, AT&T worked tirelessly to erode its customers’ legal rights, using mouse print in its terms of service preventing consumers from participating in lawsuits against the company. Instead, customers were forced into binding arbit... |
| 21.04.2021 | Most Americans say they should be vaccinated before the U.S. donates Covid-19 shots elsewhere | Three-quarters of Americans believe the U.S. government should start donating Covid-19 vaccines to other countries, but only after every person in the U.S. who wants a vaccine has received one, according to a new survey from STAT and The Ha... |
| 26.03.2021 | Facebook e Amazon lideram gastos com lobby nos EUA | Em meio a investigações no Congresso americano, as big techs estão registrando despesas cada vez maiores com políticos do país. Em 2020, as empresas gastaram US$ 124 milhões com lobby e doações de campanha. A lista é dominada por Facebook e... |
| 02.02.2021 | Amazon will pay $61.7 million to settle charges of withholding tips from delivery drivers | Amazon will pay nearly $62 million to settle federal charges that it withheld tips from delivery drivers.
The Federal Trade Commission said Amazon didn't pay 100% of customer tips to drivers, as it had promised.
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| 30.01.2021 | Covid, payday loans, student debt — here are the issues Biden’s consumer bureau may tackle | The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to become a more aggressive consumer watchdog under the Biden administration.
Consumer advocates say the bureau was almost entirely declawed under former president Donald Trump. Biden nom... |
| 14.01.2021 | Amazon Prime ‘Dark Pattern’ of Service Cancellation Explained: Why Consumer Groups Think It’s Unfair and Deceptive | Isaiah Alonzo, Tech Times 14 January 2021, 11:01 pm
Amazon's Prime subscription service is easy to use and interactive up until the rigorous cancellation process that requires several steps to perform that proved to be one of the most compl... |
| 22.12.2020 | A Dose Of Change In The Pharma Supply Chain | Kevin MacDonald, CEO of Kit Check, the leader in med kit restocking automation and drug diversion detection software for hospitals. |
| 19.12.2020 | NRF Calls For Retail Workers To Get Vaccine First. Is It To Preserve Workers’ Health Or Industry Profits? | Portrait of female cashier wearing a protective face mask standing at checkout counter in a grocery ... [+] store. Mature woman working at a supermarket during pandemic.getty |
| 03.12.2020 | The People’s Vaccine—Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine Was Largely Funded By Taxpayer Dollars | Coronavirus Covid-19 Protection and Vaccine. getty |
| 30.11.2020 | Big companies including Ford, UPS, Aflac, and BofA are lining up to bankroll Biden's inauguration — and the president-elect now says he'll take their money | Then-Vice President Joe Biden is sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in 2013. Corporations helped fund inaugural festivities that year, and Biden won't yet say whether he'll take corporate cash for his 2021 presidential inaugu... |
| 12.11.2020 | How Amazon is trying to safeguard the next wave of panic buying | But ultimately, said Thomson, “this is always a game of cat and mouse.” He noted that Amazon’s massive size means that new reforms can only do so much to stop all forms of price gouging. “Sellers will find a way to create listings to circum... |
| 12.11.2020 | How Amazon is trying to safeguard the next wave of panic buying | This spring, Amazon was thrown into disarray.
As lockdowns set off a wave of panic buying, some third-party sellers on Amazon saw the chance to make a quick buck. They hiked the prices of masks, sanitizers and other essential items as much ... |
| 02.10.2020 | Federal Safe to Work legislation receives support from the Northern Virginia Technology Council | Image: iStock/halfpoint
As businesses begin to reopen, many companies are introducing measures to ensure public safety amid the pandemic, including limited indoor capacities, mandated mask guidelines, temperature checks, and more. At the sa... |
| 11.09.2020 | Amazon accused of price-gouging for essentials during COVID-19 | Sign up for our special edition newsletter to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic.
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| 11.09.2020 | Price gouging and defective products rampant on Amazon, reports find | Enlarge / Amazon's orange-yellow logo wall.
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| 15.07.2020 | Sheldon Adelson’s Reported Interest In Mets Could Present Some Fans With Great Moral Dilemma | Sheldon Adelson is the secret bidder for the New York Mets, the New York Post reports. (Photo by ... [+] Shahar Azran/Getty Images) Getty Images |
| 06.07.2020 | Lobbyists tied to Trump represent more than a dozen companies working on Covid-19 | More than a dozen companies developing Covid-19 vaccines, therapies or diagnostics — including several of the largest drug makers —are represented by lobbyists connected to President Trump, according to an analysis by Public Citizen, a cons... |
| 02.07.2020 | A powerful law gives HHS the right to take control of remdesivir manufacturing and distribution | A rare bright spot followed the emergence of Covid-19 and its spread across the globe: the discovery that remdesivir, an experimental antiviral originally developed by Gilead Sciences and the U.S. government for use against Ebola, works aga... |
