[Link] University of California Refuses to Release ‘Preliminary and Conceptual’ Dormzilla Agreement

Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com

The University of California rejected a public records request to release its agreement with billionaire Charlie Munger over the megadorm to be built on the Santa Barbara campus because the agreement is “preliminary and conceptual in nature,” the Office of the President determined.

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[Link] Twitter Is Going to Make It Harder To Share Videos and Pictures Taken in Public

Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com

Twitter is expanding its policy on posting private information with the goal of limiting the risk of harassment, intimidation, and doxing.

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[Link] NSW laws criminalising secret recordings of animal cruelty ‘too great a burden on speech’, high court hears

Read: 26/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Laws criminalising the use of secretly recorded vision of animal cruelty and abuse are posing “too great a burden on speech”, animal rights activists have told the high court.

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