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A US Agency Rejected Face Recognition—and Landed in Big Trouble
In January that year, an Internal Revenue Service contract for online account verification with startup ID.me, which uses selfies and…
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A New York Court Is About to Rule on the Future of Crypto
Stuart Alderoty, chief legal officer at Ripple, says the company is certain that XRP does not meet any of the…
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Crypto Faces a Banking Crisis. For Some, It’s a Conspiracy
A group of Republican senators, led by Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, penned a letter to the banking regulators on March 9,…
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An Apple Store Worker Is the New Face of US Labor Law Reform
The percentage of US workers represented by a union has fallen for decades, down to 10 percent last year. But…
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Didi’s Revival Shows China Can’t Live Without Big Tech
Didi went public on June 30, 2021, valued at $68 billion. Two days later, on the evening of July 2,…
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Confusion Spirals in Crypto as the US Cracks Down
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is on the warpath—and crypto is in its crosshairs. Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal reported…
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Twitter’s API Crackdown Will Hit More Than Just Bots
On February 13, Twitter is expected to end free access to its API, or application programming interface, the backend access…
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India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet
Akash Banerjee isn’t sure whether he’s allowed to talk about the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question on his YouTube…
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How the US Can Stop Data Brokers’ Worst Practices—Right Now
The letter also points to databases maintained by the British multinational RELX and the Canadian conglomerate Thomson Reuters, which, according…
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How the US Could Ban TikTok in 7 Not-So-Easy Steps
Individual users would not have faced penalties for staying on TikTok, and internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon would…
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