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Privacy Concerns

Data Bill: Global trade bodies raise privacy concerns

NEW DELHI: More than a dozen technology and business trade groupings from the US, Europe and Japan have jointly asked a parliamentary panel examining the draft personal data protection (PDP) bill to protect the “privacy of Indian citizens” and “remove barriers” to the growth of the country’s economy. The coalition,…

bubmagMarch 6, 2020

Chinese Economy

Starbucks Gives Investors a Surprise Update on China

Click here for The Motley Fool's resources on Coronavirus and the market. Many stores are back open, but sales have plummeted. In an unscheduled SEC filing on March 5, coffee-giant Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) provided an update for its shareholders regarding its business in China. The coronavirus outbreak has been a major…

bubmagMarch 6, 2020

Clearview

Clearview AI Reportedly Worked On A Mug Shot Repository To Go With Its Face Recognition App

Photo: Dhruv Mehrotra, Gizmodo The controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI has already landed in hot water for purportedly letting both law enforcement and rich investors play around in its database of billions of photos scraped from the public internet. However, a new report suggests the company didn’t just stop…

bubmagMarch 6, 2020

Clearview

Clearview AI Reportedly Worked On a Mug Shot Repository to Go With Its Face Recognition App

Photo: Dhruv Mehrotra (Gizmodo )The controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI has already landed in hot water for purportedly letting both law enforcement and rich investors play around in its database of billions of photos scraped from the public internet. However, a new report suggests the company didn’t just stop…

bubmagMarch 6, 2020

Sky-Diving

Fort Morgan City Council hires field house contractor, approves skydiving business

The City of Fort Morgan is hiring a construction company partly operated by a Fort Morgan native to build its new $10 million field house and community center. The Fort Morgan City Council unanimously voted to approve city staff’s recommendation of contracting Fort Collins-based GH Phipps Construction Company for the…

bubmagMarch 6, 2020

Paul Newman

Bucknell beats American 64-59 in Patriot League quarterfinal

WASHINGTON (AP) — Avi Toomer scored 18 points and No. 7 seed Bucknell pulled away with a 6-1 surge in the final minute to beat second-seeded American 64-59 on Thursday night in a Patriot League quarterfinal. Bucknell (14-19) will play in a Sunday semifinal at third-seeded Boston University (19-13), which…

bubmagMarch 6, 2020

Doping Test

Sun Yang backlash: Chinese fans turn on their hero and apologise to ‘hated’ Aussie Mack Horton

Gold medal winner Mack Horton with Sun Yang and Gabriele Detti of Italy after the men's 400m freestyle final at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Photo: EPASocial media users ‘spray’ Sun after widespread publication of the Court of Arbitration for Sport report Report lists a variety of indiscretions against the swimmer…

bubmagMarch 6, 2020

Be Evil

Ken Glueck: Google Committed ‘Bank Robbery’ with Oracle Case

Oracle Executive Vice President Ken Glueck told Breitbart News in an interview on Wednesday that Google committed a “bank robbery” by allegedly stealing 11,000 lines of Oracle’s JAVA API code to develop its Android operating system. The Supreme Court will reportedly hear oral arguments for Oracle v. Google in March. Oracle…

bubmagMarch 6, 2020

Bolsonaro

Brazil recalls ‘all’ diplomats, officials in Venezuela

Brasília (AFP) - Brazil recalled its entire corps of diplomats and foreign service officials from Venezuela while ordering the government of Nicolas Maduro to pull out its representatives in Brazil, a government source told AFP on Thursday, further hardening ties between the two.Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro had already branded…

bubmagMarch 6, 2020

1619 Slavery

1619 Project is the absolute wrong way to teach kids about US slavery

March 5, 2020 | 9:17pm Enlarge Image A bronze statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass is seen during a private viewing ahead of its unveiling at the Maryland State House, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020 in Annapolis. AP Did you ever have a life-changing teacher? I did. My high-school history teacher would…

bubmagMarch 6, 2020

Data Bill: Global trade bodies raise privacy concerns

Starbucks Gives Investors a Surprise Update on China

Clearview AI Reportedly Worked On A Mug Shot Repository To Go With Its Face Recognition App

Clearview AI Reportedly Worked On a Mug Shot Repository to Go With Its Face Recognition App

Fort Morgan City Council hires field house contractor, approves skydiving business

Bucknell beats American 64-59 in Patriot League quarterfinal

Sun Yang backlash: Chinese fans turn on their hero and apologise to ‘hated’ Aussie Mack Horton

Ken Glueck: Google Committed ‘Bank Robbery’ with Oracle Case

Brazil recalls ‘all’ diplomats, officials in Venezuela

1619 Project is the absolute wrong way to teach kids about US slavery

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