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Predictions 2021: Disinformation, SPACs, Africa, Facebook, and a Return to Tech Optimism

John Battelle's Searchblog

But I’m convinced 2021 will be the year we all realize that our media/information ecosystem is broken – with disinformation, propaganda, and brazen falsehood its most pernicious externality. But in 2021, the good ship Facebook will start taking on serious water. A free and open democratic economy can’t run on b t.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

*This article first appeared on Judicature in Summer 2021. 10 At that time, it was aimed most squarely at curbing the types of duplicative, excessive, “scorched earth” discovery practices that were prevalent — i.e., at the problem of so-called “overdiscovery.”11 e addressed “[p]rivacy, trade secret, and other confidentiality concerns.”42

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Regulatory Update: NAIC Spring 2019 National Meeting

Data Matters

As a general matter, the latest exposure drafts provide for further deference to the terms of the Covered Agreements and limit the application of commissioner discretion to the extent that the exercise of such discretion is inconsistent with the Covered Agreements. reinsurer that is not licensed in the state of domicile of a U.S.