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by averysmallbird 2y ago
Not sure this title and tweet is quite accurate. This was a veto of an act of congressional disapproval of an SEC rule. I’m not familiar with the underlying rule but the CRA itself might not have actually set proactive rules for firms. This
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by averysmallbird 2y ago
Telecom mergers are handled by the FCC and DOJ, not the FTC, and the FTC has been bringing plenty of other industries than tech.
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by averysmallbird 3y ago
It does not create an age verification requirement. A platform only has obligations to provide safeguards when it has knowledge that a user is 16 and under. It also provides statutory direction that it does not require further steps to infe
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by averysmallbird 3y ago
The ESP32-C5 is supposed to have 5Ghz. https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32-C5
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by averysmallbird 3y ago
NLRB decisions in unfair labor practice cases can be appealed to a US Court of Appeals?
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by averysmallbird 3y ago
You may have that political position, but you're wrong on the merits. The non-delegation doctrine exists, but independent agencies survive because its administrators are Presidentially appointed and Congressionally confirmed, and other
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by averysmallbird 3y ago
Right. Word processing or image editing software aren't protected by Section 230, and they aren't forced to monitor their users for crime.
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by averysmallbird 3y ago
It's been settled mostly by common law decisions in courts. Which allows for consideration of whether say, the tire advertised itself as nail-proof or the automotive manufacture knew the car model was uniquely susceptible to going off
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by averysmallbird 3y ago
Removal of Section 230 immunity is not the same thing as creating or imposing actual liability. Even if the scope of the exemption is broad, from someone's standpoint, the backend liability is likely to do a fair amount of work in whet
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by averysmallbird 3y ago
Platforms have had legal obligations to treat children online differently since 2000, and yet that didn't happen.
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by averysmallbird 3y ago
Your read is correct. The duty of care was written, and further rewritten, to be narrowly applied to specific clinically-diagnosable harms and remedies. Adding to the point about the rule of construction, the lack of an exemption to Section
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by averysmallbird 3y ago
I am the staffer who cowrote this bill and I appreciate your comment and understanding of it.
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FTC requires Drizly destroy and limit user data after data breach(ftc.gov)
3 points by averysmallbird 4y ago|0 comments
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by averysmallbird 4y ago
Thanks!
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by averysmallbird 4y ago
This is beautiful. My apologies if I missed it, but is it possible to download the produced figure as an STL (or something equivalent)?
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by averysmallbird 4y ago
The California law is a copy of the UK Age Appropriate Design Code, which took effect two years ago and is different from the Safety Code. Take from that a benchmark of whether that will blow up the internet.
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by averysmallbird 4y ago
> Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? tldr; no.
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by averysmallbird 4y ago
Regardless of the threat of blocking, it's generally not popular to allow children to surf porn in the classroom, e.g. through the copious amounts that will appear in a Google Image Search.
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by averysmallbird 4y ago
They did this with the option to disable SSL a few years ago. Google provided an IP that would offer a non-SSL frontend for search that admins to redirect to using DNS, the idea being that schools and local networks could maintain whatever
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by averysmallbird 4y ago
That's not fully Github's choice to make. They made a judgement call based on seemingly incomplete evidence, and have different incentives that everyone else. Repository owners may well have a different level of acceptable risk or
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FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting(ftc.gov)
1362 points by averysmallbird 4y ago|325 comments
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by averysmallbird 5y ago
The new controls are for "intrusion software" (e.g. malware) and "IP network communications surveillance systems or equipment." There are specific definitions for those terms with technical specifications. Then there are
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by averysmallbird 5y ago
There's already export controls on encryption. Have been for decades.
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by averysmallbird 5y ago
It’s not a coincidence: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/opinion/microsoft-antitru...
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by averysmallbird 5y ago
Yes
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Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote app store competition(blumenthal.senate.gov)
381 points by averysmallbird 5y ago|367 comments
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by averysmallbird 5y ago
Do a fellowship in Congress, learn the ropes and if you don’t want to stay on the Hill, you’ll still have had a unbeatable crash course on how politics works. https://www.techcongress.io/
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by averysmallbird 6y ago
The FTC brings privacy cases under its 'unfair and deceptive acts or practices in commerce' prohibition, which does not provide it the legal basis to impose civil penalties. There are possibly other things it could have required (
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FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/Google SDK Data Sharing(ftc.gov)
159 points by averysmallbird 6y ago|74 comments
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DOJ and 11 State AG Antitrust Complaint Against Google [pdf](courthousenews.com)
2 points by averysmallbird 6y ago|0 comments

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