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Snowden SXSW Transcription

Ed: Well, thank you for the introduction. I will say SXSW and the technology community – people who are in the room in Austin they are the folks that really fix things who can enforce our rights for technical standards. Even when Congress hadn’t yet gotten to the point of …

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Gates Foundation Launches Giant Database on School Children ‘inBloom’

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave $100 million to fund a giant database to collect private information of American school children starting in early education and extending all the way through high school. Promoted as a technological tool to help teachers tailor education to the individual needs of students, …

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Borrowers Hit Social-Media Hurdles

Regulators Have Concerns About Lenders’ Use of Facebook, Other Sites By Stephanie Armour Jan. 8, 2014 6:51 p.m. ET WASHINGTON—More lending companies are mining Facebook, FB -2.23% Twitter TWTR -5.62% and other social-media data to help determine a borrower’s creditworthiness or identity, a trend that is raising concerns among consumer …

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BREAKING NEWS: Michigan nullifies NDAA’s indefinite detention

NASHVILLE, December 27, 2013 — Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan signed Senate Bill No. 94 into law yesterday. The bill seeks to nullify section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). “It is important to recall that indefinite detention first appeared in section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA, …

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Washington, DC: Our Changing City

Washington, DC, residents don’t need census data to tell them what’s obvious in their neighborhoods: the city is changing dramatically. But numbers can give us context. They can show us how shifts in population are reshaping the city and can help us prepare for changes to come. In this series, …

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