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German Court Rules Facebook Improperly Blocked Accounts
August 03, 2021
Germany’s Federal Court ruled that Facebook’s deletion of comments made by two German users that the company felt violated community standards for hate speech and the blocking of their accounts was done improperly and ordered the comments reinstated.
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DeepTarget Further Increasing Predictive Accuracy
July 28, 2021
DeepTarget Inc., a solution provider that uses data mining and machine learning to deliver targeted communications through digital channels for banks and credit unions, has announced that it has expanded its use of machine learning techniques to further help financial institutions use predictive campaigns.
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Senator Cotton Urges Coca-Cola to Condemn China’s Human Rights Abuses
July 28, 2021
Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), during a hearing of the Congressional Executive Commission on China, pressed Paul Lalli, global vice president of human rights at Coca-Cola on the company’s decision to act as a sponsor to the 2022 Beijing Olympics despite China’s human rights abuses against the Uyghurs.
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UK Proposes New Climate-related Disclosure Rules for Standard Listed Companies
July 28, 2021
In 2020, the UK government began it’s mission towards mandatory climate-related disclosures, publishing a roadmap to align with the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and recently has taken it a step further with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) proposing to extend this regime to all issuers of standard listed equity shares.
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JD Supra Blog: Is Tax Transparency the New ESG Disclosure Demand?
July 21, 2021
Cooley LLP in the JD Supra Blog analyses an article published in Bloomberg reporting that tax transparency has become a growing “under-the-radar” element of ESG disclosure and explores the debate between investors on the subject.