Speaking today at a panel at the SXSW conference, Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt emphasized that Google is "very, very worried" about the class tensions that underlie recent protests in the Bay Area, where high-salaried tech employees have drastically driven up rents.
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An administrative judge on the National Transportation Safety Board has ruled that the commercial use of small drones is in fact legal, despite six years of Federal Aviation Administration statements to the contrary.
Today Judge Patrick Geraghty dismissed a $10,000 fine levied by the FAA...
A major French railway company has come under renewed scrutiny in the US over its ties to the Holocaust, and billions of dollars are at stake. The state-owned Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français (SNCF) shipped thousands of Jews to death camps during the Second World War, when France was occupied by German Nazi troops. The company formally apologized in 2011, saying it acted under...
Massachusetts' legislature quickly worked to pass a law making surreptitiously taking photos up another person's skirt in public illegal, after the state's high court ruled that these so-called "upskirt" photos could be legally taken under current state law. "It is sexual harassment. It's an assault on another person whether it's a child or an adult," Senate President Therese Murray said after the bill was passed. "Woman and children should be able to go to public places without feeling that they are not protected by the law." Governor Deval Patrick is expected to sign it into law.
The new law follows a ruling handed down Wednesday, in which the state's Supreme Judicial Court said that a man who took photos up the skirts of women riding the Boston subway did not violate state law, because the women he photographed could not be considered nude or partially nude. As NBC News reports, the state's Peeping Tom laws apply to people photographed in dressing rooms or bathrooms, but they do...
Lawmakers say new legislation is on the way
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