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Indeed Sued By Account Exec Who Said She Was Raped By Male Coworker Amid Misogynistic, Sexually Charged Culture

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Jobs biz accused of pressuring women into sleeping with managers, discrimination, ignoring complaints Indeed has been s... Read more

Indeed Sued By Account Exec Who Said She Was Raped By Male Coworker Amid Misogynistic, Sexually Charged Culture

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Jobs biz accused of pressuring women into sleeping with managers, discrimination, ignoring complaints Indeed has been s... Read more

As US Cracks Down On Vaping, Juul Raises $325m For Global Expansion

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As US regulators begin to crack down on the American e-cigarette market, Juul has set its sights on international expan... Read more

Are We Adequately Addressing Age Discrimination In The Workplace?

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Google was recently forced to pay out $11m to jobseekers who alleged age discrimination in its hiring practices. More t... Read more

US Treasury Secretary Not Comfortable With Facebook Libra Currency

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US treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin has said he is “not comfortable” with the Libra cryptocurrency that Facebook is... Read more

Facebook Announces Crackdowns On White Supremacy And Ad Discrimination

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Facebook has announced a series of new policies surrounding enforcement against harmful content, discrimination in ads,... Read more

Apple Hits Back At Spotify With Subscription Stats In Antitrust Dispute

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Apple is claiming that Spotify’s recent antitrust complaint exaggerates how much money the Swedish streaming service ... Read more

A Year After GDPR, How Is Ireland Tackling The Data Giants?

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Just a year after the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force, it has been confirmed that 19 t... Read more

EU Lawyer: Airbnb Is An Information Society Service, Not Real Estate Agent

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Airbnb in Ireland has secured a major advantage in its legal battle against a French hotelier association that had clai... Read more

Coming In May 2019, A New EU Regulation On Non-personal Data

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Formally adopted on 14 November 2018, the European Parliament and Council’s Regulation (EU) 2018/1807 on a framework ... Read more

Facebooks New General Counsel Is A Trump Adviser Who Helped Author Patriot Act

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Facebook has named Jennifer Newstead, a legal adviser to the US state department, as its chief lawyer. She will replace... Read more

EUs Controversial Copyright Directive Will Now Become Law After Approval

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348 votes in favour compared with 274 against concluded one of the mostly hotly contested and lobbied law proposals of ... Read more

World Wide Web At 30: Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Wants A Better Web

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Today marks the 30th anniversary of Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitting his proposal for an information management system th... Read more

Elon Musk Could Be Held In Contempt Of Court After Tweeting About Tesla

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The immediacy of social media poses a risk to us all. It makes it too easy to broadcast half-baked opinions, mistaken i... Read more

Columbia Threadneedle EMEA Head Scrimgeour Leaves To Join LGIM As CEO

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Michelle Scrimgeour has resigned from her role as chief executive officer for EMEA at Columbia Threadneedle and will jo... Read more

What Can We Learn From French Labour Laws?

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The French are known for a lot of things. The nation is lauded as an international centre of culture. It is famed for p... Read more

What Do The New E-commerce Rules In India Mean For Amazon?

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Last Friday (1 February), the government in India implemented clarifications of new e-commerce regulations for retail g... Read more

DPC Raises Concerns About Facebook Integration Plans

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On Friday (25 January), Facebook revealed that it plans to allow for cross-messaging between its proprietary apps Whats... Read more

RTÉs Miriam OCallaghan Issues Defamation Proceedings Against Facebook

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Radio and television host Miriam O’Callaghan is to issue defamation proceedings against social media giant Facebook. ... Read more

Whats In Store For Data Protection In 2019?

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Leo Moore has been a partner in the technology group at law firm William Fry since 2010. In that time, he has seen his ... Read more