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UT News Search Button 2 UT Austin Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences Jonathan Sessler and Anthony Di Fiore have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences. AUSTIN, Texas — Chemist Jonathan L. Sessler and anthropologist Anthony Di Fiore of The University of Texas at Austin have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The academy is the country’s most prestigious scientific organization, and election to it is one of the highest honors for A...

In March, Virginia swiftly passed the Consumer Data Protection Act. According to an investigation by  An investigation conducted by nonprofit news organization  The Markup found that Virginia’s case is not unique. Of the 20 proposed state privacy bills currently being considered across the country, at least 14 of them were built upon the same industry-backed framework established in Virginia. The website further believes that some of these laws might actually be weaker. In Washington, Oklah...

 E-Mail IMAGE: TACCs Ranch supercomputer, a long-term data mass storage system, is safely preserving over three petabytes of data from the Arecibo radio telescope. Ranch is an allocated resource of the Extreme... view more  Credit: TACC Millions of people have seen footage of the famed Arecibo radio telescopes collapse in December 2020. What they would not have seen from those videos was Arecibos data center, located outside the danger zone. It stores the golden copy of the telescopes...

Big Tech is pushing states to pass privacy laws, and yes, you should be suspicious Concerned about growing momentum behind efforts to regulate the commercial use of personal data, Big Tech has begun seeding watered-down “privacy” legislation in states with the goal of preempting greater protections, experts say. The swift passage in March of a consumer data privacy law in Virginia, which Protocol reported was originally authored by Amazon with input from Microsoft, is emblematic of an...

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Big Tech files lawsuit against Maryland digital ad tax Follow Us Question of the Day By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times - Thursday, February 18, 2021 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and lobbying groups for tech giants have filed a lawsuit against the state of Maryland over its newly enacted tax on digital advertising sales, according to a leading advertising official. Dan Jaffe, executive president of governmen...

Dan Jaffe, group EVP of government relations, Association of National Advertisers It’s possible that this development will give further impetus to Montana, Connecticut, New York, Nebraska, Oregon and Indiana that also have similar taxes pending – and that would be highly unfortunate as the law clearly violates the Permanent Internet Tax Fairness Act that bars discriminatory taxes on digital media. It also almost certainly violates the Dormant Commerce Clause and therefore is unconstitution...

The California Consumer Privacy Act has been notoriously ambiguous, so people have turned to the courts for clarity.

It's clear from the outset that the Biden administration will focus on issues that are relevant to advertisers.

Share: Soon-to-be-president Joe Biden has a full plate, from ramping up COVID-19 vaccine distribution and dealing with the economy to addressing the stark polarization of the Trump years. So, don’t expect much movement on privacy and consumer protection during the first 100 days. But both are top priorities for the incoming administration. And there’s appetite for action on both sides of the aisle and in the mainstream. “Big tech has fallen out of favor with politicians and the masses due...