by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Nov 29, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
Vogue Business/ George Arnett/ November 29, 2019 The vast majority of materials on earth will biodegrade. The problem is that some, like plastic, will take a millennium to disappear. So what does it mean when a product is labelled as “biodegradable”? It suggests it...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Nov 12, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
CNN/ Ariana de Vogue and Priscilla Alvarez/ November 12, 2019 (CNN) The Supreme Court appeared to struggle Tuesday with the Trump administration’s efforts to terminate the Obama-era program shielding hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who arrived...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Nov 5, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
The Hill/ Emily Birnbaum/ November 5, 2019 A pair of California Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a tough privacy bill that would significantly curtail Silicon Valley’s control over all Americans’ personal information. The bill, introduced by...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Oct 18, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
The New York Times/ David McCabe/ October 18, 2019 WASHINGTON — House lawmakers on Friday pressed experts on how the market power of major tech platforms could hurt consumer privacy, showing that an antitrust investigation into Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon is...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Oct 1, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
Reuters/ Kieran Guilbert/ October 1, 2019 NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The United States has blocked the import of goods suspected to have been made with forced labor from five countries, including clothing from China and diamonds from Zimbabwe,...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Sep 24, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
The New York Times/ Somini Sengupta and Lisa Friedman/ September 23, 2019 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Climate Action Summit on Monday was meant to highlight concrete promises by presidents, prime ministers and corporate executives to wean the global economy...
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