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Ten ethical flaws in the Caster Semenya decision on intersex in sport
Athlete Caster Semenya will need to take hormone-lowering agents, or have surgery, if she wishes to continue her career in her chosen events. Rarely does a public policy fail so spectacularly on so many ethical grounds.
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Singapore makes it illegal to send unwanted nudes
Singapore has become one of the first countries to outlaw the sending of unsolicited lewd photos, or “cyber flashing,” as governments and companies around the world seek to curb new forms of harassment enabled by technology. The city state passed a bill on Monday that makes unwanted sexual exposure through images a crime punishable by up to a year in prison and a fine.
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It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
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In re: Grand Jury Subpoena, Chelsea Manning, Subpoenaed Party. Declaration 19-1287-cv
My name is Chelsea Elizabeth Manning. I am competent to be a witness, and I possess personal knowledge of the facts set forth below... I’m not going to change my mind. Not now, not ever. So be it. [PDF]
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Muslim American Society chapter's video of children speaking about beheadings was an 'oversight'
Leaders say it was recorded by a group renting space at the MAS facility in North Philly and should not have been posted to Facebook.
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Long before first 737 MAX crash, Boeing knew a key sensor warning light wasn’t working, but told no one
Boeing knew in mid-2017 that a warning light linked to a key sensor on the 737 MAX wasn't working on most of the airplanes, but it informed neither the FAA nor the airlines until after the Lion Air crash. By Dominic Gates.
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Putin signs “Internet sovereignty” bill that expands censorship
Bill mandates Internet filtering and creates a Russian version of DNS.
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Venezuela becomes Trump's latest proxy battle with Russia
The face-off is a potentially explosive confrontation between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as the president heads into his re-election bid.
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A Reminder of All the Crimes the “Political” Mueller Investigation Uncovered
Republicans characterized the investigation as an inherently political exercise meant to smear Trump.
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Federal Judge Damon Keith, who authored landmark rulings on civil liberties, dies at 96
Keith decided cases on some of America's most controversial issues, from school desegregation to government surveillance of citizens
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Michigan Republicans ordered to redraw gerrymandered legislative maps
Judges found 34 districts were so severely gerrymandered that they violated the U.S. Constitution
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Federal judge rules against Texas in ban on boycotting Israel
In a victory for freedom of speech advocates and a setback for conservative state leaders, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman on Thursday issued a temporary injunction on a politically charged law that bars state contract workers from boycotting Israel. By Ryan Autullo.
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Laurence Doud III, drug company exec to face federal criminal charges as a drug dealer.
Laurence Doud III, the former CEO of the Rochester Drug Cooperative, is the first drug company executive to face federal criminal charges over the opioid crisis.
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The Pirate Bay Lives On, A Decade After 'Guilty' Verdicts
Ten years ago this week, four men were found guilty and sentenced to prison for running The Pirate Bay. At the time, Peter Sunde said that the site would continue, no matter what. A decade on he has been proven absolutely right and that in itself is utterly remarkable.
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Professor: Total surveillance is the only way to save humanity
We're doomed to destroy ourselves if we don't embrace mass surveillance, he argues.
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Legacy Music Industry Shouldn't Get To Watch Over The Royalties Of Independent Songwriters
Last year, a very strange thing happened in the copyright space: a pretty major update to copyright law was passed and it wasn't that controversial. Leading up to that passage there had been plenty of concerns, but a compromise was worked out...
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German Data Privacy Commissioner Says Article 13 Inevitably Leads to Filters, Which Inevitably Lead to Internet "Oligopoly"
German Data Privacy Commissioner Ulrich Kelber is also a computer scientist, which makes him uniquely qualified to comment on the potential consequences of the proposed new EU Copyright Directive.
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Employee privacy in the US is at stake as corporate surveillance tech monitors workers' every move.
The emergence of sensor and other technologies that let businesses track, listen to and even watch employees while on company time is raising concern about corporate levels of surveillance.
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French internet cops issue terrorist takedown for… Grateful Dead recordings?
Internet Archive perplexed and annoyed over idiotic demands
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Explainer: what charges does Julian Assange face, and what's likely to happen next?
If the Swedish charges against Assange are revived he could face a second extradition request, on top of the existing request from the US. Then it will be up to the UK to decide which to prioritise.
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