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Biden Administration Seeks to Exclude Medical Debt from Credit Scores The Biden administration announced plans to develop new rules that would prevent unpaid medical bills from counting towards consumers’...
CA Assembly Passes Data Delete Act California’s Assembly passed a bill ( SB 362 ) that would let consumers request the deletion of data collected on them by third-party brokers with the click of...
CA Legislature Approves $25 Healthcare Worker Minimum Wage On the last day of this year’s regular session, California lawmakers passed a bill ( SB 525 ) that would phase in a nation-leading $25...
Just last month, Illinois became one of the latest states to enact a law requiring parties involved in healthcare mergers to observe a waiting period before closing their transactions. The bill, HB 2222...
TX Judge Strikes Down ‘Death Star’ Law A county judge in Texas declared the state’s new so-called “Death Star” law preempting local ordinances, including those mandating...
Autonomous vehicle (AV) industry executives and experts say remote human supervisors may always be needed to help robot drivers deal with unexpected incidents or so-called “edge cases.” In addition to employing safety drivers to sit behind the wheel of their cars, many AV startups also use remote human supervisors who monitor video feeds from multiple AVs, sometimes from hundreds of miles away, and step in to help robot drivers that run into trouble.
Koosha Kaveh, CEO of Imperium Drive, said the number of edge cases would drop as more self-driving cars – with more predictable drivers than human ones – get on the road, “but you will never get to zero edge cases.”
“Even decades from now you will not get to 100% truly autonomous vehicles,” he said. (REUTERS, INSURANCE JOURNAL)
California has filed a lawsuit against Amazon accusing the company of engaging in anticompetitive contracting practices with its third-party merchants, in violation of the state’s Unfair Competition Law and its Cartwright Act, an antitrust law.
“Amazon coerces merchants into agreements that keep prices artificially high, knowing full well that they can’t afford to say no,” said California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D). (LOS ANGELES TIMES)
The Ethereum network’s major upgrade, the Merge, went live last week. The shift in the way the network verifies transactions from proof-of-work - involving miners and millions of highly specialized computers crunching complex math equations - to proof-of-stake, replacing miners with validators who’ve staked ether as collateral, is expected to cut the network’s energy consumption by over 99 percent. (CNBC)
Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, former head of security for Twitter, told the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee last week that security problems at the company “make it vulnerable to exploitation, causing real harm to real people.” In July Zatko filed a whistleblower complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, alleging the company puts user growth ahead of privacy and security. (CNET)
Twitter shareholders voted last week to approve Elon Musk’s $44 billion offer to buy the company. The approval comes despite Musk’s recent efforts to back out of the deal, over which Twitter has sued him. The case is expected to go to trial in mid-October. (CNBC)
An NFL.com subscriber has filed a federal lawsuit against the National Football League for allegedly sharing subscribers’ personal data with Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook. The suit is seeking $2,500 in compensation for each individual who joins the class action, in addition to unspecified punitive damages. Similar lawsuits have been filed against Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., Huffington Post and Bloomberg LP. (BLOOMBERG, INSURANCE JOURNAL)
Tesla is facing a potential class action lawsuit over the advertising of its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features. The suit alleges the company and its CEO Elon Musk have claimed since 2016 that the company’s self-driving technology was fully functioning or “just around the corner,” despite knowing it didn’t work and made vehicles unsafe. (REUTERS, INSURANCE JOURNAL)
-- Compiled by KOREY CLARK