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May 30, 2019

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A Red Herring on Privacy: Big Tech Wants a Federal Law That Sinks State Protections

By Griet Van Acker, Public Citizen Big tech companies are in hot water over their handling of users’ personal information. More than 91 percent of Americans “agree” or “strongly agree” that people have lost control over how personal information is collected by and used by companies. State legislators have started stepping in and passing laws to […]

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Trump Administration Puts Offshore Oil Rig Workers’ Lives at Risk

By Jacob Carter, Union of Concerned Scientists The Trump administration is failing to consider scientific evidence in rolling back a rule intended to keep lives of offshore oil rig workers safe. These are the very workers that the Trump administration claims to care so much about. But evidence suggest that this rollback on worker safety has been a long […]