All Posts By

bubmag

Covid-19 controls turn Asia into global surveillance hotspot, analysts say Big Data

Covid-19 controls turn Asia into global surveillance hotspot, analysts say

KUALA LUMPUR — Asia has become the world's surveillance hotspot and is at risk of serious privacy breaches as measures rolled out to contain the spread of Covid-19 become permanent in many countries, researchers warned on Thursday (Oct 1). The Right to Privacy Index published by British-based risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft, rated 198 countries for privacy violations stemming…
bubmag
October 1, 2020
House Passes $2.2 Trillion Stimulus Bill, But That Doesn’t Mean $1,200 Checks And More Unemployment Benefits Are On The Way Nancy Pelosi

House Passes $2.2 Trillion Stimulus Bill, But That Doesn’t Mean $1,200 Checks And More Unemployment Benefits Are On The Way

Topline The House of Representatives passed a $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill Thursday evening in a 214-207 vote, even as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin continued to push for a last-minute, bipartisan compromise on the next round of aid—the vote is a symbolic step from…
bubmag
October 1, 2020
CA Gov. Newsom Signs Law Establishing State Task Force to Develop Reparations for Slavery Slavery Abolition

CA Gov. Newsom Signs Law Establishing State Task Force to Develop Reparations for Slavery

California governor Gavin Newsom speaks at a news conference in San Diego, Calif., October 9, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) California governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed a law on Wednesday that mandates the establishment of a state task force to develop possible reparations to the descendants of slaves. The new law…
bubmag
October 1, 2020
Voters Deserve to Know Where Joe Biden Stands on Court-Packing Joe Biden

Voters Deserve to Know Where Joe Biden Stands on Court-Packing

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participates in the first 2020 presidential campaign debate with President Donald Trump in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) When invited at the first presidential debate to confirm whether he hoped to expand the Supreme Court in order to pack it with Democrats, Joe…
bubmag
September 30, 2020