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 September 20, 2023  Posted by  Business, Online
New Privacy Badger Prevents Google From Mangling More of Your Links and Invading Your Privacy

Alexei Miagkov and Daly Barnett write: We released a new version of Privacy Badger that updates how we fight “link tracking” across a number of Google products. With this update Privacy Badger removes tracking from links in Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Images results. Privacy Badger now also removes tracking from [Read More…]

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 September 19, 2023  Posted by  Artificial Intelligence, Business, Court

Isaiah Poritz reports: Plaintiffs in a wide-ranging consumer class action alleging OpenAI LP scraped private information from hundreds of millions of internet users dropped their lawsuit only a few months after filing the complaint in San Francisco federal court. The 16 plaintiffs are reserving their right to re-file the complaint, [Read More…]

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 September 19, 2023  Posted by  Laws, U.S., Youth & Schools

Snippets from a press release last week by NY’s governor: Governor Kathy Hochul today signed three pieces of legislation to strengthen workers’ rights in New York State. This support will uplift workers in addition to recent employee protections surrounding mandatory political and religious meetings, strengthening wage theft penalties, and increasing benefits for [Read More…]