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California Lawmakers Block Facial Recognition Bill Amid Protests Against Racist Policing
California lawmakers blocked a bill on Wednesday that could have expanded the use of facial recognition technology by companies and government, including law enforcement, as protesters nationwide continued to call out racism and unjust
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Shield churches, micro businesses from data law pressure – Golding
St Andrew South Member of Parliament Mark Golding has proposed that the Government introduce a threshold to exempt micro businesses and small non-governmental organisations such as churches from the Data Protection
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Apple lifts a giant middle finger to Intel
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Despite Reform Efforts, BPD Corruption Persists | Afro
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com The following was published in the New Orleans Advocate, October 15, 2014, recounting the murder of a woman ordered by a member of the New Orleans Police Department in 1994: “Two decades ago, amid one of the darkest chapters in the
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Virginia Governor Releases List of Long-Term Care Facilities with COVID-19 Outbreaks
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Friday that he has directed the state health department to release the names of individual long-term care facilities that have experienced a COVID-19
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Morgan State Wins Ford HBC Challenge | Afro
Morgan State University’s Food Resource and Expanded Shuttle for Healthy Living Year-round (FRESHLY) Program secures first place in the Ford HBC-You Mobility Challenge for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Talladega College wins second place and $10,000 to produce raised
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Keep Fighting. Keep Filming! Tips on Filming Police Misconduct
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Tiktok maker ByteDance hit $3-billion in net profit last year
TikTok parent company ByteDance generated more than US$17-billion in revenue and more than $3-billion in net profit last year, figures that show the start-up, already the most valuable in the world, is growing at a brisk rate, according to people familiar with the
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(1995) William Jefferson Clinton, “the Job of Ending Discrimination in This Counrt is Not Over”
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Congressional Black Caucus Reflects on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the State of Voting Rights 55 Years Later | Afro
(Black PR Wire)  - Today, (Aug. 9), we celebrate the 55-year anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But 55 years later, our nation is still struggling to ensure voting rights for all Americans. This 1965 law was an historic win for African Americans, but we continue to face
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MTN partners with UN-backed mobile virus tracker set to reach over 600 million in Africa
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Africa: Some Lessons From the History of Epidemics in Africa
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LETTERS: Enhance protection in digital financial space
Despite the ongoing discussion and debate about which aspects of consumer protection can be best addressed by industry-led actions, versus requiring regulations, the upsurge in the number of cases of fraud, loss of customer funds, lack of transparency regarding applicable fees and costs as well as
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