Category «Legislation»

Fintech: Overview of Innovative Financial Technology and Selected Policy Issues

EveryCRSReport.com – Fintech: Overview of Innovative Financial Technology and Selected Policy Issues, April 28, 2020: “Advances in technology allow for innovation in the ways businesses and individuals perform financial activities. The development of financial technology—commonly referred to as fintech—is the subject of great interest for the public and policymakers. Fintech innovations could potentially improve the …

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Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legislation

Small Businesses and COVID-19: Relief and Assistance Resources

Via LC – Small Businesses and COVID-19: Relief and Assistance Resources Updated April 28, 2020 – “This CRS Insight presents selected websites and CRS products potentially relevant to small businesses that are directly affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and seeking economic relief and assistance. For an analysis of the small business provisions …

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Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Description Of The Tax Provisions Of Public Law 116-136, The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, And Economic Security Act

Joint Committee on Taxation – Description Of The Tax Provisions Of Public Law 116-136, The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, And Economic Security (“CARES”) Act, April 22, 2020: “This document, prepared by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation in consultation with the staffs of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee …

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Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Interim coronavirus deal legislative text

April 21, 2020, Senate, 116th Congress 2nd Session – the Paycheck Protection and Program and Health Care Enhancement Act – encompassing and additional $484 billion – “To increase amounts authorized and appropriated for commitments for the Paycheck Protection Program authorized under Section 7(a) of the Small Business Act, economic injury disaster loans and emergency grants …

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Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Legislation

COVID-19, Digital Surveillance, and Privacy: Fourth Amendment Considerations

CRS Legal Sidebar – COVID-19, Digital Surveillance, and Privacy: Fourth Amendment Considerations, April 16, 2020:  “As COVID-19 has spread across the globe, countries like South Korea and Israel have employed digital surveillance measures using cell phone location data, among other things, in an effort to track and limit the virus’s transmission. In the United States, …

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Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Social Media

How much access to data should be permitted during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Harvard Law Today – Urs Gasser explores the risks and benefits of mining data to combat COVID-19: “…Privacy and data protection issues vary greatly depending on the types of data, use cases, and actors involved. And countries around the world have very different baselines and practices in place determining how such rights are protected. European …

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Subjects: Civil Liberties, EU Data Protection, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

Constitutional Considerations of Remote Voting In Congress

CRS Legal Sidebar – Constitutional Considerations of Remote Voting In Congress April 14, 2020: “COVID-19 has had an impact on almost every facet of American life. Congress has not been spared. Largely because the risk of transmission of the disease is highest in concentrated groups, there have been calls to alter the internal operation of …

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Subjects: Congress, Courts, E-Records, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Legislation

Join Us on April 23 for a Foreign Law Webinar on Fighting Pandemics

“Please join Laney Zhang and Nicolas Boring for the Law Library’s upcoming webinar, Fighting Pandemics: Foreign and International Legislative Frameworks, at 2:00 PM on Thursday, April 23, 2020. This webinar is the latest installment in the Law Library’s new series of webinars focused on foreign and comparative law. Focusing on select European and Asian jurisdictions, …

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Subjects: Congress, Education, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

How Much Data Does Clearview Gather On People?

TechDirt – The Answer (Sadly) Will Not Surprise You – “Clearview’s facial recognition app links to a database of 4 billion pictures. And those photos are linked to all the data that got scraped up with them, culled (without permission) from sites like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn… pretty much anywhere people post photos and personal information. There’s …

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Subjects: E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

WaPo Live Coronavirus Updates – US and around the world

Access to these Washington Post updates is free – Live updates: Confirmed coronavirus cases approach 500,000 worldwide; Senate passes stimulus, but new U.S. jobless claims shatter decades-old record – “Much of the world’s population is now living under some sort of coronavirus-related restrictions as the total number of confirmed cases worldwide approaches 500,000. In Washington, …

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Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Legislation

Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook

Politico – “The 69-page document / PDF [and embedded in this article], finished in 2016, provided a step by step list of priorities – which were then ignored by the administration. “The strategies are among hundreds of tactics and key policy decisions laid out in a 69-page National Security Council playbook on fighting pandemics, which …

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Subjects: Defense, Government Documents, Health Care, Legislation
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