The Biden administration finalized a rule Wednesday that bans the use of natural gas in new federal buildings. The Department of Energy announced the final rule, Read More
The new law gives ByteDance an initial nine months to sort out a deal that would require to sell TikTok to a different entity.
A permit to build a gas drilling platform in the North Sea off the coast of the island of Schiermonnikoog has been torn up by judges in The Hague because of the potential damage to nature. The court ruled that it is not clear what the impact of nitrogen compound emissions associated with the rig and gas extraction will mean for vulnerable areas in the neighbourhood. In particular, measures to offset nitrogen emissions are not properly supported, the court said.
NEW DELHI, (IANS) – The US House of Representatives has once again passed a new legislation that may lead to a ban on Chinese short video making platform TikTok in the country. In March, the House voted in favor of a bill seeking to ban […]
The Dutch government is considering closing down its Facebook pages because of concerns about privacy, junior home affairs minister Alexandra van Huffelen has told MPs in a briefing. Last year Van Huffelen asked the Dutch privacy watchdog Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens for its recommendations and the AP now says it would be better to stop using Facebook pages until the company has come clean on how it processes personal data. The minister commissioned the research after Meta was not prepared to...
BATON ROUGE - Members of Jews Against Gassing stood alongside Senator Katrina Jackson-Andrews on the Capitol steps Tuesday afternoon to protest a recently passed bill which legalized lethal gas as an execution method.House Bill 6, authored by Representative Muscarello and signed by Governor Jeff Landry, approved the use of lethal gas for death-row executions. The new precedent is set to begin in July.Louisiana became the eighth state in the country to recognize lethal gas as an execution...
For road safety and better traffic management, President Marcos has revived a policy prohibiting government officials and personnel from using sirens or wang-wang, blinkers and other similar signaling or flashing devices.
Legislation allowing the courts to ban a political party that poses an “actual and serious threat” to the democratic rule of law was put out to consultation this week by home affairs minister Hugo de Jonge. The new Political Parties Act will allow the Supreme Court to dissolve a political party if its objectives and activities compromise one or more of the fundamental principles of the democratic rule of law, including free elections, democratic decision-making, the separation of powers, and an...
If Trudeau's National Urban Park Initiative is implemented, Alberta could see its parks, including Edmonton's River Valley, hijacked by the federal government in the name of 'sustainability, conservation, equity, diversity, inclusion, and reconciliation.'
(JNS) – The Combat Antisemitism Movement has condemned Meta’s Oversight Board’s recommendation to end its ban on the use of the Arabic word shaheed, or “martyr” in English, after a year-long review. Meta currently removes any posts using shaheed in reference to people appearing on the company’s list of “dangerous organizations and individuals,” which includes […]
The Netherlands' digital mininster said the government will be forced to stop using Facebook pages if it doesn't get clarity on its concerns from Meta.
The Dutch privacy watchdog AP on Friday said it was recommending that government organizations should stop using Facebook as long as it is unclear what happens with personal data of users of the government's Facebook pages. People that visit a government's page need to be able to trust that their personal and sensitive data is in safe hands, AP chairman Aleid Wolfsen said in a statement. Junior minister for digitalization Alexandra van Huffelen said Facebook parent company Meta had to make...