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Amazon says all US warehouse workers will be required to wear masks again beginning on Monday, whether they are vaccinated or not. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Shannon_Liao: NEW: I spoke to 17 current and former Blizzard employees, and one non-employee, about the years leading up to the Activis… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @FTC: Today Acting BCP Director Samuel Levine wrote to @Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding the company’s misleading claims about its… — PolitiTweet.org

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At Black Hat, @CISAJen comes out forcefully in favor of strong encryption: "As the CISA director and me, personally, I think strong encryption is absolutely fundamental for us to do what we need to do." https://t.co/09KEDkWbCa — PolitiTweet.org

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Amazon discloses a €746 million fine in Europe over alleged privacy violations, which would be the biggest penalty in GDPR history. The company is vowing to fight the fine. https://t.co/0zJRCZAQZS — PolitiTweet.org

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Lots more on clean tech, batteries and EVs that are too numerous to outline here but you can read all 57 pages right here: https://t.co/TWG3UX4Jdn — PolitiTweet.org

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And then there are a ton of cyber-related provisions within the energy portions of the deal. $250M for utility readiness and resilience. FERC to start a rulemaking to incentivize use of security tools. And DOE can require entities getting this $$ to submit cybersecurity plans. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mkraju: Here’s the full summary. Bill text has not been released yet https://t.co/GuU8Zwq5Ym https://t.co/PCZZLcZ3cR — PolitiTweet.org

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The deal funds the National Cyber Director's office for the first time, to the tune of $21M. — PolitiTweet.org

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There are a whole bunch of cybersecurity provisions. For example: A $100M fund over 5 years to help agencies and businesses recover from breaches, and $1B over 4 years for state and local entities for similar resiliency purposes. $35M just for CISA to do cyber risk management. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Low Income Broadband Benefit would reduce the available benefit from the current $50/mo. to $30/mo. — PolitiTweet.org

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Apart from the $40B state grants, the deal includes $2B each for rural areas and tribal entities, and $2.75B for digital inclusion initiatives. It makes permanent the Emergency Broadband Benefit program, a pandemic-related subsidy, renamed as the Low Income Broadband Benefit. — PolitiTweet.org

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And as you may recall, Biden's own infrastructure proposal initially called for "future-proof" networks, which many experts interpreted as meaning fiber-backed symmetrical speeds. (This is not that, either.) — PolitiTweet.org

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@mkraju On broadband, the deal includes $40 billion in state grants for deployment, and is technology-agnostic. ISPs using the money have to build networks with minimum speeds of 100 Mbps down / 20 Mbps up. That's a bit less than the symmetrical speeds some senators have called for. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@mkraju got ahold of a 57-page summary of the infrastructure deal being provided to senators. Some tech-related highlights: First, new cryptocurrency reporting requirements to be imposed on brokers could raise $28 billion (!), according to the Joint Committee on Taxation. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @evelyndouek: One of my favorite Arbiters' guests so far: spoke to @qjurecic about the role of social media posts in the lead up to and… — PolitiTweet.org

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In one of the final exchanges of this hearing, FTC Chair Lina Khan suggested corporate concentration contributes to the ransomware problem (idea being that massive companies with huge troves of data are more attractive targets for hackers). — PolitiTweet.org

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From the White House fact sheet on the bipartisan infrastructure deal 👇 (If you sell your cryptocurrency, the IRS today considers that a taxable event.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Wait what are those — PolitiTweet.org

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A number of FTC commissioners in this hearing (which keeps getting interrupted by votes) are blasting Section 230 as an impediment to the agency's law enforcement mission. https://t.co/Jhh1Ut7Wx1 — PolitiTweet.org

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@binarybits @kansasalps As I've observed it, the critique is not that Bezos's expression of gratitude was somehow insincere but rather that it *was* sincere and that that speaks somehow to the power relationship between Bezos and the workers and consumers who launched him into space. — PolitiTweet.org

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Background on the case he's referring to: https://t.co/fF7vCEDoUk — PolitiTweet.org

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To constitutionally regulate health misinformation requires the Supreme Court to overturn US v. Alvarez, @grimmelm argues in an interview with @mathewi. https://t.co/Vg5Ou7TmeW https://t.co/6RGdVwf73l — PolitiTweet.org

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As we wait for House E&C lawmakers to return from votes, here's the snippet of FTC Chair Lina Khan's testimony to them earlier this AM faulting tech platforms for facilitating a wave of fraud schemes this past year, particularly surrounding Covid-19: https://t.co/Xvle43IZOe — PolitiTweet.org

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Just in: A group of states seeking to break up Facebook have appealed a federal judge's decision last month to toss out their case. At the time, the judge said the AGs had missed their chance to challenge Facebook's purchase of Instagram and WhatsApp. https://t.co/GGy0OvCTJw — PolitiTweet.org

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(Biden is basically trying to do as much as possible to coordinate voluntary, proactive defense by private industry given that the USG lacks legal authority to mandate specific and uniform requirements across the entirety of US critical infrastructure.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden will sign a presidential memo today to further shore up critical infrastructure cybersecurity, the White House says. The memo will create new voluntary security goals for CI operators and expands a pilot to encourage CI companies to start using network monitoring tools. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kylieatwood: Big news: President Biden will announce on Thursday a requirement that all federal employees & contractors be vaccinated a… — PolitiTweet.org

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If you hate wearing masks now, imagine how awful it will be to have to wear masks FOREVER because the virus has evolved to evade vaccines — PolitiTweet.org

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The headlines from today on masking do not make this clear, and perhaps they should https://t.co/qOWxN1LE8P — PolitiTweet.org