by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Mar 27, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
The Guardian/ Jennifer Rankin/ March 27, 2019 The European parliament has voted to ban single-use plastic cutlery, cotton buds, straws and stirrers as part of a sweeping law against plastic waste that despoils beaches and pollutes oceans. The vote by MEPs paves the...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Mar 17, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
Wired/ Issie Lapowsky/ March 17, 2019 On October 27, 2012, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote an email to his then-director of product development. For years, Facebook had allowed third-party apps to access data on their users’ unwitting friends, and Zuckerberg was...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Mar 4, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
Reuters/ Dena Aubin/ March 4, 2019 Copyright owners must have a copyright registration from the U.S. Copyright Office, not merely an application pending, before they can sue for infringement, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday, resolving a long-standing...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Feb 28, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
The Verge/ Makena Kelly/ February 28, 2019 Today, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) is introducing a data privacy bill that would explicitly bar platforms like Facebook and Google from serving targeted ads that discriminate against protected groups, particularly by...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Feb 24, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
The Guardian/ Lisa Martin/ February 24, 2019 Women in Bangladesh and Vietnam making clothes for the $23bn Australian fashion industry are going hungry because of wages as low as 51 cents an hour, an Oxfam report has found. The aid group interviewed 470 garment workers...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Feb 11, 2019 | Fashion+Tech In the News
CNET/ Stephen Shankland and Sean Keane/ February 11, 2019 President Donald Trump on Monday directed federal agencies to improve the nation’s artificial intelligence abilities — and help people whose jobs are displaced by the automation it enables....
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