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EU Announces New Data Transfer Pact With US, Faces Fresh Challenges
The European Commission announced a new data transfer pact with the United States on Monday, seeking to end the legal uncertainty plaguing thousands of companies which transfer personal data across the Atlantic. However, the move was immediately criticised by non-profit group noyb, led by privacy activist Max Schrems, which said it would challenge ...
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US Police Seize Guns From Black Men At Virginia Rally For Gun Rights
Police stopped a car of Black men and confiscated two of their guns at Virginia's annual "Lobby Day" on Monday while white gun rights activists defied local laws unimpeded in the state capital of Richmond.
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EU-US Data Pact Scrapped by Top Court Following Facebook Complaint by Activist Max Schrems
European Union’s top court invalidated an online data arrangement between Europe and the US over complaints around Facebook by activist Max Schrems, who calls it a “100 percent win.”
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Internet Shutdowns Costing Telecom Operators Crores in Lost Revenue
Mobile operators are losing around Rs. 2.45 crores ($350,000) in revenue every hour they are forced to suspend Internet services on government orders to control protests against a new citizenship law, a top lobby group said on Friday.
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UK Academics Protest As Cambridge Fellow Told To Go Back To India
Hundreds of academics, students and activists have signed an open letter to lobby the UK Home Office to reconsider its decision to deny a University of Cambridge scholar permanent residency in the UK for spending too much time in India, which she says was essential for fieldwork and research.
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Clean-Up At Newspaper Office In China After Bombs Were Thrown Into Lobby
Cleaners swept up broken glass at the Hong Kong office of China's official news agency Xinhua on Sunday, one of the buildings vandalised in a violent day of protests which also saw activists hurl petrol bombs and set fire to metro stations.
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Porsche Goes Green With Leather-Free Upholstery In New Taycan Electric Sports Car
Porsche is making a leather-free version of its new Taycan electric sports car in the latest attempt by a German automaker to play up green credentials as environmental activists lobby for a boycott of the industry. Last month, a climate activist group smashed up 40 luxury vehicles and called for a boycott of this month's Frankfurt Auto Show becaus...
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Tamil Nadu Techies Say They're Moving To Form India's First IT Union
A week after employees complained against IT major Cognizant for pink-slipping them, techies in Tamil Nadu are forming a union. More than 100 software professionals have signed up as members. The union, to be called "Forum for IT Employees, Tamil Nadu " will lobby for women's safety and protect members' rights by holding IT firms to labour laws, sa...
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Is Ivanka Trump Jewish? In Israel, She Has A Trump Card
Last summer, Israel's religious authorities issued a ruling that raised doubts about her conversion to Judaism. But after her father was elected president, they have changed their tune, raising eyebrows among activists who have long lobbied the rabbinical establishment to be more tolerant toward converts.
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Dutch Arrest 30 Greenpeace Activists Blocking Russian Tanker
Dutch police on Thursday arrested around 30 Greenpeace activists, including the captain of the lobby group's flagship Rainbow Warrior, as they tried to stop a Russian tanker delivering Arctic oil from docking.
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Microsoft appoints activist investor Mason Morfit to board
The world's largest software company offered Morfit a board seat in August, following months of lobbying by ValueAct for a say on how Microsoft is run.
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Greenpeace activist hangs off Eiffel Tower in protest against Russia
A Greenpeace activist today staged a protest in a tent suspended from the second floor of the Eiffel Tower against Russia's detention of 30 members of the environmental lobby group.
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Rules do not require Indian companies to disclose lobbying details
Indian companies are not required to make any disclosures regarding their lobbying activities and the country's regulations have no provision as yet in this regard, the government said on Monday.
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Novartis golden handshake angers shareholders, politicians
Pharma group Novartis' decision to pay up to 72 million Swiss francs to outgoing chairman Daniel Vasella has unleashed a wave of indignation among activist shareholders and politicians.
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Green lobby protests tiger's killing in Kerala
Environment activists are protesting the shooting of a tiger by forest officials in Kerala on December 2. The tiger had killed 14 domestic cattle heads in several villages of Wayanad district.
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EU Announces New Data Transfer Pact With US, Faces Fresh Challenges
The European Commission announced a new data transfer pact with the United States on Monday, seeking to end the legal uncertainty plaguing thousands of companies which transfer personal data across the Atlantic. However, the move was immediately criticised by non-profit group noyb, led by privacy activist Max Schrems, which said it would challenge ...
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US Police Seize Guns From Black Men At Virginia Rally For Gun Rights
Police stopped a car of Black men and confiscated two of their guns at Virginia's annual "Lobby Day" on Monday while white gun rights activists defied local laws unimpeded in the state capital of Richmond.
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EU-US Data Pact Scrapped by Top Court Following Facebook Complaint by Activist Max Schrems
European Union’s top court invalidated an online data arrangement between Europe and the US over complaints around Facebook by activist Max Schrems, who calls it a “100 percent win.”
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Internet Shutdowns Costing Telecom Operators Crores in Lost Revenue
Mobile operators are losing around Rs. 2.45 crores ($350,000) in revenue every hour they are forced to suspend Internet services on government orders to control protests against a new citizenship law, a top lobby group said on Friday.
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UK Academics Protest As Cambridge Fellow Told To Go Back To India
Hundreds of academics, students and activists have signed an open letter to lobby the UK Home Office to reconsider its decision to deny a University of Cambridge scholar permanent residency in the UK for spending too much time in India, which she says was essential for fieldwork and research.
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Clean-Up At Newspaper Office In China After Bombs Were Thrown Into Lobby
Cleaners swept up broken glass at the Hong Kong office of China's official news agency Xinhua on Sunday, one of the buildings vandalised in a violent day of protests which also saw activists hurl petrol bombs and set fire to metro stations.
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Porsche Goes Green With Leather-Free Upholstery In New Taycan Electric Sports Car
Porsche is making a leather-free version of its new Taycan electric sports car in the latest attempt by a German automaker to play up green credentials as environmental activists lobby for a boycott of the industry. Last month, a climate activist group smashed up 40 luxury vehicles and called for a boycott of this month's Frankfurt Auto Show becaus...
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Tamil Nadu Techies Say They're Moving To Form India's First IT Union
A week after employees complained against IT major Cognizant for pink-slipping them, techies in Tamil Nadu are forming a union. More than 100 software professionals have signed up as members. The union, to be called "Forum for IT Employees, Tamil Nadu " will lobby for women's safety and protect members' rights by holding IT firms to labour laws, sa...
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Is Ivanka Trump Jewish? In Israel, She Has A Trump Card
Last summer, Israel's religious authorities issued a ruling that raised doubts about her conversion to Judaism. But after her father was elected president, they have changed their tune, raising eyebrows among activists who have long lobbied the rabbinical establishment to be more tolerant toward converts.
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Dutch Arrest 30 Greenpeace Activists Blocking Russian Tanker
Dutch police on Thursday arrested around 30 Greenpeace activists, including the captain of the lobby group's flagship Rainbow Warrior, as they tried to stop a Russian tanker delivering Arctic oil from docking.
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Microsoft appoints activist investor Mason Morfit to board
The world's largest software company offered Morfit a board seat in August, following months of lobbying by ValueAct for a say on how Microsoft is run.
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Greenpeace activist hangs off Eiffel Tower in protest against Russia
A Greenpeace activist today staged a protest in a tent suspended from the second floor of the Eiffel Tower against Russia's detention of 30 members of the environmental lobby group.
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Rules do not require Indian companies to disclose lobbying details
Indian companies are not required to make any disclosures regarding their lobbying activities and the country's regulations have no provision as yet in this regard, the government said on Monday.
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Novartis golden handshake angers shareholders, politicians
Pharma group Novartis' decision to pay up to 72 million Swiss francs to outgoing chairman Daniel Vasella has unleashed a wave of indignation among activist shareholders and politicians.
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Green lobby protests tiger's killing in Kerala
Environment activists are protesting the shooting of a tiger by forest officials in Kerala on December 2. The tiger had killed 14 domestic cattle heads in several villages of Wayanad district.
