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DARE: Oakland Approves Face Recognition Surveillance Ban

News DigestJuly 19, 2019

City of Oakland, CA, approves ordinance banning municipal use of facial recognition technology; concurrently, the U.S. House of Representatives passes... More

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DARE: Opinion: ‘Accusing the New York Times of “Treason,” Trump Crosses a Line’

News DigestJune 20, 2019

Wall Street Journal takes unusual step of printing op-ed by the publisher of the rival New York Times following President Trump's accusation of 'treason'... More

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DARE: On Amazon, a QAnon Conspiracy Book Climbs the Charts—with an Algorithmic Push

News DigestMarch 5, 2019

Amazon's algorithms push “QAnon: An Invitation to the Great Awakening,” a book supportive of the QAnon conspiracy to the top of its best seller list. More

DARE: Some of the Popular Images and Themes the Russians Posted on Social Media

News DigestDecember 18, 2018

Further evidence emerges of Russian operatives interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, including by targeting black voters and dissuading... More

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DARE: Google’s Sundar Pichai Was Grilled on Privacy, Data Collection, and China during Congressional Hearing

News DigestDecember 12, 2018

Google CEO testifies to Congress on allegations of bias against conservatives, data privacy, spread of misinformation, and tailoring a search engine to... More

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DARE: Time Magazine Names Jamal Khashoggi and Persecuted Journalists ‘Person of the Year’

News DigestDecember 11, 2018

Time magazine honors Jamal Khashoggi, Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, the Capital Gazette staff killed in a mass shooting in June, and other journalists killed and... More

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Human Rights Groups Urge Google CEO to Discontinue Project Dragonfly

Press ReleaseDecember 11, 2018

"If Dragonfly is launched in China, it will represent Google's elevation of profits over human rights. But more painfully, it will make Google complicit in the Chinese government's efforts… More

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DARE: Federal Employees Are Warned Not to Discuss Trump ‘Resistance’ at Work

News DigestNovember 30, 2018

Nearly 2 million employees of the federal government have been warned against making statements about impeaching or resisting President Trump, in an... More

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Free expression organization @PENamerica released a letter signed by more than a dozen other civil liberties organizations opposing federal legislation and proposals that seek to impose a wholesale ban on social media platform TikTok in US .

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The superintendent says this ban of NINETEEN MINUTES and 13 other books not a ban. Explain to me how permanently REMOVING a book from a library shelf is not a ban? https://twitter.com/PENamerica/status/1641517467976474641

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Yes. ND gov: "The teaching profession is challenging enough without the heavy hand of state government forcing teachers to take on the role of pronoun police." https://thehill.com/homenews/3926656-north-dakota-governor-vetoes-bill-restricting-transgender-students-pronouns/

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